Legal document: T-S 12.675

Legal document T-S 12.675

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T-S 12.675
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Aramaic
Hebrew

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Recto: beginning of a Qaraite ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar 12[..] Seleucid = 889–988 CE. There is a small drawing in the header. Verso and the upper margin were subsequently reused for a draft of another (Rabbanite?) ketubba. This one is dated 22 Elul 1304 Seleucid = 11 September 993 CE. The groom is Aharon b. Baqāʾ and the bride is Durra. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1997).

Recto

  1. … [בשם אל עול]ם    הצליחו האלהים
  2. …ם קד : אז תשמח בתולה
  3. ביום רביעי בשבת בראש חדש אדר שנת אלף ומאתי[ם] …
  4. משמי [מר]ומו וי[קנ]א לקדשת שמו ויבנה ביתו ואול[מו] …
  5. וינ[חילם נחלתם ויחי]ש כל בשרותיו הצפונות ל[שאריתם] …
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1997).

Recto

  1. [In the name of the Everlasting God]    God made him prosper (II Chron. 26: 5).
  2. … the holy ones : Then shall the virgin rejoice (Jer. 31: 13).
  3. On Wednesday, the Rosh Hodesh Adar, of the year one thousand two hundred …
  4. from His elevated heaven and He shall zealously defend the holiness of His name. He shall rebuild His house and His hall …
  5. and he shall [make them inherit their inheritance. He shall hasten] all the hidden good news for [their remnants] …

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