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Cairo Genizah : Letter

Gaʾon Solomon b. Judah

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter in Hebrew from Solomon b. Judah, the Jerusalem Gaʾon, to Abraham b. Sahlān, giving greetings to his sons Sahlān and Nahum, and celebrating Sahlān re-establishing his links with the Palestinian Academy, which he had previously rejected. The address on verso is in Arabic and Hebrew. Datable to c. 1030 CE. Edited as n. 96 in M. Gil, 'History of Palestine' (1983: ii 181-3). The main business of the letter is introduced with the shortened form of the verb, גע מכתבו, one of the many payṭanic features found in Solomon's Hebrew. </p>

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