Letter: T-S AS 83.258

Letter T-S AS 83.258

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T-S AS 83.258
Primary Language
Hebrew

Description

The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the calendar controversy: that the Four Gates, a Babylonian algorithm, are inadequate because they do not cover all the days of the week, and that festivals should not be excessively postponed, as the Babylonians did in the years of the contro versy. It also rejects the Palestinian addition of 641 parts to the midday calendar limits.

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date
In PGP since 2021
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S AS 83.258. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/34610/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/34610/