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- Title
An Aramaic Bill of Sale for the Enslaved Nubian Woman.
- Authors
Perry, Craig
- Abstract
This essay analyzes a bill of sale for the enslaved Nubian woman. In Cairo during the year 1108 CE, the Jewish woman Sitt al-Aqrān sold to another Jew, Sitt al-Munā, who was the widow of the prominent Geniza merchant Nahray b.. Bills of sale are the most common form of Geniza evidence for the history of slavery and the slave trade. While scribes composed most bills of sale in Judeo-Arabic, the majority of this document is in Aramaic. This scribe's use of Aramaic legal formulas reflects his reliance on a (defective) copy of the Babylonian Talmud and on a manual of gaonic legal formularies compiled by Hai Gaon, the head of the Pumbedita yeshiva.
- Subjects
HISTORY of slavery; HISTORY of slave trades; CAIRO Genizah; NUBIAN women; JUDEO-Arabic manuscripts
- Publication
Jewish History, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 2-4, p451
- ISSN
0334-701X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10835-019-09336-0