[Ḳetubah] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Marriage contract, draft

Date:

0869

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Adam (Biblical figure); Ketubah; Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law); Marriage (Jewish law); Midrash; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : fragment; incomplete, cropped beneath final line

Rights:

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

Notes:

The oldest dated Genizah document. A draft of a ḳetubah, in which the writing is interrupted after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 Tishre 1183 (שבת אשר בתשרי [...] אלפא ומאת ותמנ״ן מציון ותלת), Seleucid year (לשתרות). The parchment has been cut off beneath this final line. On the right margin: ברוך ייי הללויה מציון שכון ירושלום (sic!).; Verso contains a secondary inscription, added much later, which fits the cut of the discarded parchment. It contains a Midrashic passage in Aramaic about the humility of Adam among the creatures. The term בקא (single flea) appears, which is mentioned but once in Rabbinic literature (Talmud Ḥulin 58b).; Hebrew and Aramaic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 331

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)