Wednesday, January 13, 2010

*ALL* YOUR CHILDREN

בס''ד


“And All Your Children Shall Be Learned: Women and the Study of Torah in Jewish Law and History" – Shoshana Pantel Zolty
1993 Jason Aaronson

Page 145 reads:

There is also indirect mention of a... female scribe in the Genizah documents: we are told that the Jewish community of Daquq (today called Tawuq), Iraq, was headed by Azarya, ‘son of the female copyist.’ He was praised by the Hebrew poet Yehudah al-Harizi for his noble descent and character as well as his munificence.”*


* Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, vol. 2, p.184


Copyright © A. Barclay
Originally published January 2005 at Netivat Sofrut: the Diary of a Soferet
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