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Join: T-S NS 324.112 + Moss. VII,157
T-S NS 324.112
Recto/verso:
Section:
Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is April 1037 CE. Neḥemya had had a fight with members of his community and he took an oath not to slaughter an animal or pray. He then changed his mind and asked Hayya Gaon to annul his vow. This letter is the Gaon’s response, annulling of the vow. The letter closes with Hayya's motto "yeshaʿ rav" (ישע רב) and the date. Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and mentioning a paternal aunt and her son. Gil understands these as the private accounts of one of Nehemya’s sons, mentioning the name of two sons, Yoshiyyahu and Avraham. List of monthly rental payments, for one third of Sahlān’s house that was probably inherited to the writer. (Information from CUDL and Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #40, and E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, pp. 167, 169, 174.) VMR
Ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 2; also ed. Elinoar Bareket, Jewish Leadership in Fustat (in Hebrew) (1995).
Type: Letter
Tags:
communal
