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Moss. VII,27

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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).

Editor: Ed. Elinoar Bareket, Jews of Egypt 1007-1055‎ (in Hebrew) (1995). Awaiting digitization; also ed. and trans. Oded Zinger, "Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents of the Cairo Geniza" (2014). Awaiting digitization.

Library: Mosseri

Type: Letter

Tags: marital dispute

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