Paraliterary text: HUC 1008

Paraliterary text HUC 1008

Metadata

Shelfmark
HUC 1008
Editor
Norman Golb, "The Scroll of Obadiah the proselyte‎" (in Hebrew), Studies in Geniza and Sephardi Heritage‎ (1981).
Inferred Date
Primary Language
Hebrew
Secondary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Input date
In PGP since 2023

Description

First page of a prayer book (contains the beginning of Sabbath's eve prayer), copied by Obadiah, the Norman proselyte. Contains a colophon with his name and the date of his conversion to Judaism - Elul 1413 sel., 4862 AM (August-September 1102 CE).

HUC 1008 verso

verso

Transcription

Norman Golb, "The Scroll of Obadiah the proselyte‎" (in Hebrew), Studies in Geniza and Sephardi Heritage‎ (n.p., 1981).

1. עׂבַדְיָה הַגֵּר  הַנָרְמַנְדֻּס אֲשֶׁר בָּא בִּבְרִי//ת// אֱלׂהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

2. בְּיֵרַח אֵילול שְנת אתיג לשְטָרוֹת היא ד'תתסב

3.                                                         לִבְרִיאַת עוֹלָם.

4.                                                        הוּא עׂבַדְיָה הַגְֵּר

5.                                                         כָּתַב בְּידוֹ

Translation

https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/38074/