Letter: ENA 2743.5

Letter ENA 2743.5

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA 2743.5
Primary Languages
Hebrew
Judaeo-Arabic

What's in the PGP

  • Image

Description

Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Includes the rather violent lines, "We made them taste their desert of the scalding water of hell (ḥamīm al-istiḥqāq), and we took them with the severest [...], and we left them a degraded nation (ḥerpat ʿam)." Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew, in a different hand. Greetings to Moshe and Peraḥya "his brother."

Related People

Scribe
Natan b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver (uncertain)

Additional metadata

Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 2743, fol. 5; ENA 2743, f. 5
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

ENA 2743.5 2

°
2

ENA 2743.5 1

°
1
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  • ENA 2743.5: Images provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (JTSL) CC-Zero / Public Domain
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 2743.5. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11620/ (accessed June 6, 2026).