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    LetterT-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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    LetterT-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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    1. [           ] בחוצה לארץ ורבי עקיבא עיבר בחצה [לארץ] וששבט

    2. [           ואין] משגיחין בעיבור החדש ובקידוש החדש [א]לא על בני

    3. [ארץ ישראל] [ …

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    LetterT-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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    LetterT-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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    Paraliterary 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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    1. שלום מעניף ע[ ] מרומים ומצליל עד יצוק הדומים

    2. סובב ומקיף סב[ ]ים אפוד חן עטוף רחמים ממתיק

    3. טעם כמו לרחו[ ] כסוחים כאיתן בא בימים כאהוב…

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    Legal 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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    1. בשם אל[     ]עת רצון מיי֗י
    2. נולד בן לאלע[זר] הלוי בן חלפון
    3. הלוי בן נחמאל הלוי נ֗נ֗ ושמו דוד
    4. הלוי ישימהו אלהינו לברכה בקרב
    5. הארץ אמן. ביום ראשון …

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    1. In the name of God [                ]  at a moment favoured by God
    2. a son was born to Elʿazar ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon
    3. 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 …

    1. יקול מן כת[ב כט]ה פי הדא אלמחצר ו[ ]ה
    2. ומחצרה מן אלמקאדסה ואלגזיין אלכא[ ]מה אליהם
    3. אנא וקפנא יום אלגמעה מסתהל דו אלקעדה סנת תלת וארבעין
    4. וארבע מאיה על…

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