Letter: Moss. VII,27
Letter Moss. VII,27Tags
Description
Letter in Hebrew from the communal head of Ṣahrajt, a small Delta town, reporting on the local communityʼs handling of a particularly problematic case of marital strife. A man married the sister of his deceased wife, but the marriage was not a success, and, as the letter narrates the events, the wife appealed to a Muslim court to divorce her from her husband. (Information from Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law (PhD diss), 65–66).