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Princeton Geniza Lab
Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
We know you've all been waiting for the next episode of "Cathetergate": @OdedZinger and I have found all but one of the joins! Seven different pieces, and now we know the name of the rogue doctor: Berakhot b. Yeshuʿa. Never loan him a urinary catheter. geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…
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Judaeo-Arabic legal document in which a man named Hibatallāh of Mosul recruits Abū l-Bishr to shake down a rogue doctor who borrowed his urinary catheter(!) and never returned it ⚕️. Old Cairo, 1100–38 CE Left: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3… Right: google.com/books/edition/…

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This is a variation on the trope in medieval Judaeo-Arabic letters of people trying to earn the prayers of family matriarchs by doing things that make them happy, like coming home to visit. Apparently this guy doesn't plan to come home any time soon, so her prayers are dangerous!
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Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
Never mess with grandma: "...and regards to your mother, but by God, O father, don't do anything to make her pray! By God, her prayers are like arrows that never miss, and may God not punish you and us all with their fire." 🧓📿💘❤️‍🔥
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Haim Gottschalk
Haim Gottschalk@GottschalkHaim·
@GenizaLab @OdedZinger There are so many letters like this in the Genizah collection. One could do research on this topic (of mother writing to her children)
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Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
New join for this letter from a disconsolate mother to her son in al-Ushmūnayn (Upper Egypt), 1146–54 CE. Found by @OdedZinger! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…
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Letter from a mother: "My son, people only raise children so that they won't have to rely on others, but you are making me rely on others even as you prosper!" ويا ولدي انما يربو الناس اولادهم ان يغنوهم عن الناس تحوجني الى الناس وانت بكل خير geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

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Princeton Geniza Lab
Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
A newly discovered — and probably older — version of the famous letter purporting to be from Muḥammad to the Jews of Khaybar around 630 CE, granting them special privileges on account of their loyalty and his marriage to their kinswoman Ṣafiyya. geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/3…
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Sean W. Anthony@shahanSean

(T-S 16.353) A 9th- or 10th-century copy of a letter ascribed the prophet Muḥammad and reputedly copied down by ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib addressed to the Jews of Khaybar and Maqna.

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khalid yousef@khalidsyossef·
(New publication): University of Pennsylvania Press, will be released on January 17, 2023 "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" by: Oded Zinger
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Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
ENA 3028.2, a short note in Judaeo-Arabic asking Abū Isḥāq for a long pen 🖊️ It's notable, because every single word has vowels and diacritics! Manuscripts like this reveal how medieval (Judaeo-)Arabic was pronounced. Spotted by the keen eyes of PGP researcher Yosef Ginsberg 🧵
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Very excited about this!
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medievalJewishStudiesNow!@ME_JEWSTUD_NOW·
Conference: "The Histories of Ibn Gabirol: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Eleventh-Century al-Andalus - New Perspectives and Directions.
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oded zinger@OdedZinger·
@LiranYadgar @GenizaLab @mrustow If I ever write the book on the masculinity of belonging in geniza documents, I will certainly include a chapter on brotherly love
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Marina Rustow
Marina Rustow@mrustow·
Total Request Geniza continues with: BROMANCE. “Ever since I met you in Bijaya, your love was bound up in my heart, and our souls mingled, and our limbs joined." But now, "I pray to God that I not encounter you, and if I see you coming, I take a different path to avoid you."
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Prad Nelluru, quantum satis@pradnelluru

@mrustow bromance :)

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@LiranYadgar @GenizaLab @mrustow In my own dissertation, I discussed another emotion: crying and yelling in court and petitions - but this part will not make it into the book.
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oded zinger@OdedZinger·
@mrustow Yes, to lend each other books. In the end of the long agreement there is also a condition not to remain more than 24 hours angry at each other. And who is the rabbi mentioned as approving this legal bromance? ... None other than Joseph Caro
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oded zinger@OdedZinger·
@mrustow The real bromance in the genizot is the legal agreement published in Mann, Texts and Studies, 472 onwards. Where two men undertake to לקשור קשר חזק ואמיץ של אהבה ואחוה ושל(וה?) בנינו כאילו היינו אחים מאב ואם . And what is the first point of the "strong tie of love"?
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oded zinger@OdedZinger·
@GenizaLab It is worth noting that this seems to be the earliest mention of Baldwin in any surviving Arabic source. I am also planning to publish this discovery hopefully at some point (so maybe some credit?)
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Princeton Geniza Lab
Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
A brawl in the Nile Delta in 1104 CE, immortalized in a legal testimony: Shelomo b. Avraham grabbed Perahya b. Tarfon by his robe, insulted the Jewish leaders, and hauled his victim before the Muslim authorities, crying out, "I am King Baldwin, and he is my prisoner!"
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oded zinger@OdedZinger·
@GenizaLab There is a hebrew article by the late Joel Kraemer on the ahkam al-khamisa...
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Princeton Geniza Lab
Princeton Geniza Lab@GenizaLab·
The five categories of Islamic legal rulings, in Judeo-Arabic, on the back of a letter: • mafrūḍ (compulsory) • manhiyy ʿanhu (forbidden) • makrūh (discouraged) • mustaḥabb (encouraged) • mubāḥ (neutral) Who knows how common it is to see Jews engaging with these terms?
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