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1. with mention of the husband and wife and the ʿedim (witnesses) they provide a window into the society, bringing real people to the fore.

Do you think the average resident of Fustat would have had a very good understanding of how people from other religious communities lived? ... Living in those circumstances, people might have found it difficult to keep their personal lives and

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Submitted by Barry :andy on 27 August 2021 - 5:53pm. You mention "credit is due" and mention two people by name. ... If you are giving credit surely it is usual to refer to people by their name and not their title?

He (the cantor) said: ‘Go and gather some people, and let them surprise you with him so that your assertation might be confirmed’.

Samuel ben Hofni, in contrast, says that she was a charlatan who knew how to trick people and tell them what they want to hear. ... People in trouble will seek the unnatural and will believe in what gives them comfort.

Is there an aspect of the story that you think few people realise? ... I hope that people will find it to be a good read, nevertheless.

This came as a surprise – two people had practised or added vowels to it. ... I’m sitting writing a scroll and I have to go and gather ten people?

he could only ransom some of the people and had to leave the others. ... However, the grace of the Lord, may His Name be exalted, and his ever-ready mercy, has been bestowed upon these wretched people.

It’s not a book about history – it’s history itself. And we hope people will hear. ... It’s important for several reasons. Firstly, it’s something that happened here, so people here should know about it.

How did you come to be interested in these figures? The archives of some prominent Cambridge Egyptologists are deposited in the Library – people likeF.W. ... Thomas Cook’s package holidays had launched in the 1870s and significant numbers of people

Were the 1020s so interesting, that people wanted to read about these years so long afterward? ... As long as the correct principles of calendation were upheld (observing the crescent moon and the ripening of barley) they did not mind if different people

Moses can be trusted with their cheese needs. We find a number of people in the Genizah who make cheese.

Radio Maria England is a non-profit organization run by a mixture of professionals and volunteers, lay people, clergy and religious.

People are selling among their associates and networks. They might prefer to buy a slave from a trusted seller. ... Is there anything you would like people to think of when they think about medieval slavery?

and אלקום “the people” became easier to read and the numeral 7 in אלג֗זו אלז֗ “the seventh part” became legible for the first time. ... Rather than making a linguistic comment, Saadya discussed the time when torches were lit to

Are there certain things to keep in mind, for example, that there might be identifiable descendants of the people in the letters you’re reading? ... For example, many people in documents from Damascus and Cairo carry the name Fayruz, which is known to

Can you outline the process, or your part in it? There are a lot of people involved with this program. ... There’s a lot of elbow jostling around the story of the ‘discovery’ isn’t there – so many people get sidelined.

There are people like Agnes Lewis, Margaret Gibson, and Greville Chester who we know purchased manuscripts from local dealers.

Unfortunately, many people treat Greek inclusions in Hebrew precisely as you have said – they open the dictionary and whatever they find they believe to be the answer – which is often very ... There’s a psychological issue here – people become so

Later in the year, as pandemic restrictions ease, it is hoped that people will be able to drop in and view at their leisure.

During the first wave of Caliph al-Hakim’s intolerance towards the People of the Book, a Fustat-based scribe – Samuel ben Jacob – completed his labours on a high quality Bible

The writer of the letter, Judah ben Aaron Ibn al-ʿAmmani, was a court clerk responsible for managing the lists of people eligible for the bread ration to the poor, and

For our author, it is clear that the book of Hosea portrays a religious struggle in which the people have forsaken the Lord and turned to the worship of Baal. ... covenant were announced to the people of Israel in Exodus 21, Deuteronomy 5 and 25.

When people think of Diaspora Jewish languages, they likely think of Yiddish.

Based on comparisons with watermarks already known from Europe, we can say that the people of Cairo had paper from Italy, France, Germany, and Spain, and possibly even farther destinations, during ... The T-S collections contain manuscripts from people

Medieval peoples’ desire to know about the future was no less intense than our own desire to learn about the past.

There are people he encounters who go to the synagogue daily and are out and about in the marketplace, but are they deep philosophical thinkers? ... I hope that adding illustrations to this section will help to draw in people who might otherwise only be

paper). What sorts of information can we deduce from these ‘common’ Bibles about the people who wrote them? ... indicates that everyday people may have been studying Targum.

Also, I wonder what the people back then referred to this period of time? ... L. Udovitch in "A Tale of Two Cities," describes the anxiety of people as the Nile waters failed to rise.

It’s an easy one to do, because — helpfully — several other people have already translated it: Goitein, Gershon Weiss, and Amir Ashur.

There are two intermingling interests in the work of the alchemist, and it’s also why alchemists tended not to reveal their secrets to people who were not accomplished philosophers as

I put this fragment up on social media after I started working on it, and people offered up all sorts of interesting parallels.

Therefore for your generosity to us, in the midst of the land of Egypt may your people be blessed for ages.

Agnes and Margaret had learned photography to produce copies of manuscripts in St Catherine’s Monastery – possibly the very first manuscript digitization project – but they also photographed scenery and people.

Petitions are addressed to people with power (whether political, administrative, communal or financial).

These manuscripts span the entire Genizah period and raise questions about medieval and pre-modern Jewish peoples’ engagement with the Qurʾan.

Obadiah. Same name, but two different people who converted to Judaism via different avenues. ... Many people, including initially me, made the mistake associating the Responsa of Maimonides (Rambam) with Obadiah , the Norman Proselyte.

Who are these abbreviated Bibles or Psalters for? Were all three abbreviation methods used by the same people?

The list of actions first describes the basic actions undertaken by all animals (eat, sleep), and then moves to actions, feelings and emotions that are more specific to people.

Nahum 1:6). (T-S 18J3.9 recto lines 9–11). What could this letter-writer do but speak to the people to declare a fast, call an assembly, and go ... And the great miracle (והנס הגדול) was that all the days that the people were cast out into the

Parchment was an expensive commodity in the Middle Ages, so many people sold old manuscripts once they no longer needed them, and new users recycled them for new writing or as

Then, when I was on maternity leave in 2015 a conference took place in Switzerland and people started literally calling me from the conference to ask me questions about the ... Some reading material for if one has spare time, perhaps? I’m not sure how

standpoint concerning the investigation of every facet of the codex; for it was, moreover, necessary for practical reasons as well, given the special circumstances of Jewish people during the Middle Ages,

People could sit with it to compare an entire book or scroll.

Soon after the Talmud was redacted, the therapies in it became passé and few people apparently did them anymore.

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