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View document detailsLetterT-S 8K6
This polemical letter, in a manuscript of which only one sheet has been preserved (T-S 8K6), shares features in common with Letters 1 and 2 …
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View document detailsLetterT-S 12.725
Text from the Calendar Controversy of 921/2. What survives of this text consists mostly of an argument that calendrical decisions can only be taken by …
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[ ] בחוצה לארץ ורבי עקיבא עיבר בחצה [לארץ] וששבט
[ ואין] משגיחין בעיבור החדש ובקידוש החדש [א]לא על בני
[ארץ ישראל] [ …
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View document detailsLetterT-S Misc.8.27
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. There is mention of the Qaraites and Ben Me'ir, suggesting that it might have to do with the calendar controversy. There is …
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View document detailsLetterT-S 8K8 + T-S 8K7 + Ms Harkavy
One of two manuscripts of ben Meir's first letter regarding the calendar controversy of 921/22 CE. (The other one is ENA 2556.2 + Bodl. Heb. …
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Paraliterary textENA 3235.1 + ENA 3235.2
Calendar manual with distinctive Palestinian calendar traditions, such as the rule of 641–642. Defers to Babylonian calendar rules, in a way that is inconsistent and …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.29.190 fol. 13
Provides minimal information on the calendar. Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations. Includes the Palestinian calendar rule …
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LetterENA 2556.2 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/1 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/2 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/3 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/4 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/5 + Bodl. MS heb. f 26/6
Epistle regarding the calendar controversy of 921–22 CE, including a response by Aharon b. Meʾir, who writes from Palestine to Baghdad. The letter begins with …
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שלום מעניף ע[ ] מרומים ומצליל עד יצוק הדומים
סובב ומקיף סב[ ]ים אפוד חן עטוף רחמים ממתיק
טעם כמו לרחו[ ] כסוחים כאיתן בא בימים כאהוב…
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View document detailsLegal documentRNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4816 fol. 205
Birth record. On the final page of a copy of copy of Kitāb al-Tawriyyah, the Book of Covert Ambiguity, by the 11th-century Qaraite scholar Jeshuʿah …
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- בשם אל[ ]עת רצון מיי֗י
- נולד בן לאלע[זר] הלוי בן חלפון
- הלוי בן נחמאל הלוי נ֗נ֗ ושמו דוד
- הלוי ישימהו אלהינו לברכה בקרב
- הארץ אמן. ביום ראשון …
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- In the name of God [ ] at a moment favoured by God
- a son was born to Elʿazar ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon
- ha-Levi b. Neḥamʾel ha-Levi, ma…
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LetterT-S 12.147
Karaite document, compiled by a delegation of 12 Gaza and Jerusalem Karaites, regarding the state of fields in the spring in order to determine whether …
- יקול מן כת[ב כט]ה פי הדא אלמחצר ו[ ]ה
- ומחצרה מן אלמקאדסה ואלגזיין אלכא[ ]מה אליהם
- אנא וקפנא יום אלגמעה מסתהל דו אלקעדה סנת תלת וארבעין
- וארבע מאיה על…
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