Paraliterary text: HUC 1008

Paraliterary text HUC 1008

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HUC 1008
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Primary Language
Hebrew
Secondary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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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).

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Hebrew Union College Library
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In PGP since 2023
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HUC 1008 verso

verso
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

Hebrew Union College Library, HUC 1008. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/38074/, accessed December 26, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/38074/