What is it about?
A Hebrew letter from the fifth century found in Egypt
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Why is it important?
The letter combines a bunch of letter writing traditions to demand money for a loan that it forbidden by Jewish law
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This was a fun paper to write
Amit Gvaryahu
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: A Hebrew Letter on Papyrus and Its Contexts: Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, September 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341579.
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