Letter: Moss. VII,207.1

Letter Moss. VII,207.1

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Moss. VII,207.1
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Informal note addressed to a judge. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman came to Hillel with a bill of divorce (here called "baraʾa," release) supposedly written in the hand of the addressee, but he suspects that it is a forgery, because the addressee, the purported scribe, does not habitually date his documents with the Seleucid calendar. Furthermore, the verso of the bill of divorce does not contain the required statement that it was delivered to the woman. The addressee is asked to look into this (al-naẓar fīhā). The women's husband is missing (maʿdūm). (Information from Oded Zinger's forthcoming edition.)

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Hillel b. ʿEli

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Cambridge University Library, Mosseri
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In PGP since 2017
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Moss. VII,207.1 1r

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1r

Moss. VII,207.1 1v

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1v
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