[Letter to the three sons of Suleiman ben ʻAli, Fustat] : manuscript

Name:

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 332

Language:

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Sulzberger.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942 Correspondence; Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942; Hebrew letters; Talmudic academies -- Iraq -- Babylonia; Talmudic academies; Jewish calendar

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; personal correspondence

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive, complete; stained

Geographic Subject:

Iraq

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Published from this source by Schechter: Saadyana / S. Schechter [ed.]. Cambridge : Deighton and Bell, 1903, no. VII, pp. 24-26; Jewish Quarterly Review, v. 14 (1914) p. 43, 59-61; H Borenstein, Sefer ha-yovel ... li-khevod Naḥum Soḳoloṿ. Warsaw, 1904, p. 81; M. Gil, Be-malkhut Yishmaʾel bi-teḳufat ha-geʾonim / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University, 1997, vol. 2, p. 17-19, no. 5.; The beginning of the epistle is missing. The fragment opens with a complaint of the Gaon about not hearing from his students for six and a half years, and mention of David ben Abraham, an agent of the Yeshiva (Sura) in Egypt.; The rest deals with the two days added by the Gaonate to Kislev and Marḥeshvan in the year 921, a decision rejected by the Erets Israeli Gaon Ben Meir, causing great controversy. The Gaon urges his students in Fustat to accept his decision.; The content of the epistle ends after a third of fol. 2 verso. The remainder, under the heading אלענואן ערבי, records the mail information in Arabic characters, including the addressees, Sulieman ben ʻAli ben Suleiman, and his two younger brothers ʹAziz and Salim(?), and the sender (l. 3) Saīd ben Yousef Ras al-Akal.; This is not the original epistle, as it is in codex, not mail format.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 332