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Monday, May 13, 2024

On divorce documents

GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (APRIL 2024): Geṭ groundwork from the Cairo Genizah: practising writing a Jewish divorce document (T-S 10J2.34) (Marc Michaels).

This Geniza text is dated to 1492, but the essay covers geṭ conventions ranging from the Bar Kokhba Revolt era to the present.

For PaleoJudaica posts on marriage and divorce law in the Talmud (noting Daf Yomi essays by Adam Kirsch), follow the links from here. For divorce among the Elephantine Judeans, see the links collected here.

For PaleoJudaica posts noting Cairo Geniza Fragments of the Month in the Cambridge University Library's Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, see the many links collected here.

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