Legal document: T-S 8.159

Legal document T-S 8.159

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T-S 8.159
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Hebrew
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Arabic

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Recto: end of a betrothal deed (לארוסה זו), mentioning the name Shemuel. Witnessed by Ḥananya b. Yosef and Yosef b. Ḥananya. Dated: Adar I of the year '37, likely [13]37 Seleucid = January/February 1026 CE. Only the years 1026 and 1126 were leap years and could fit this deed. Ashur tends to favor the earlier date since the hand which wrote the document is similar to the hand of the scribe who wrote the al-Yusanah documents of the eleventh century (published by Joseph Rivlin). In addition the Hebrew in the document is more typical of the eleventh century. Verso: one line in Arabic script, probably from a letter, containing a name: [...] b. Abū Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-[...] ادام الله عزه. (Information in part from CUDL and Amir Ashur's dissertation)

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Amir Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal Documents from the Cairo Geniza‎" (in Hebrew) (PhD diss., n.p., 2006).

Recto

  1. מארוס זה לארוסה זו וממ שמואל אחי קילה על מ[ה]
  2. [דכתיב למ]עלה קנין שלם ומתוך כך עמד וקדש כ[דת]
  3. משה וישראל בחדש אדר ראשון שנת שלשים ושב[ע]
  4. ... זה וחמשים ביני חטי וקנינו נתקן והכל שריר וק[יים]
  5. חנניה בר יוסף ננ יוסף בר חנני[ה]
  6.   עבֹ

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