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This is both Sinai and the uprooter of mountains, the book Sefer Hatashbeṣ, which was composed by the king, the great eagle, the renowned sage, the grand prince, the light of…
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Meir Crescas
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1739
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To my lord, Yaush, may YHWH cause my lord to see peace at this time! Who is your servant, a dog, that my lord sent him the king’s [lette]r [and] the letters of the officers, saying, “Please read!” And…
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Lachish, Land of Israel
(Tel Lakhish, Israel)
Date:
586 BCE
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Belonging to Elyakim steward of Yokin [or Yawkin].
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Late 8th Century BCE
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[Belonging to Tobshillem/Tobshalem (?)] son of Zakkur the healer.
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City of David, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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In the seventh (year). Bethlehem. For the King.
Translated by Ronny Reich.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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8th Century BCE
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I sometimes dream that I’m a prisoner. For days, years. I’m only free at night, for a few hours toward morning. During those hours I can walk around. But I don’t know where to go. All the people I…
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Barbara Honigmann
Date:
1996
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In my cottage was I one day merrily
Despite the Fortune full of treachery.
“What are you doing?” Providence asked me.
“Why are you obsessed only with this life?
You must also know of the…
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Yuāsuf Yahuādīā
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(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
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1749
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His two months, namely, ingathering; his two months, namely, seed (or: sowing); his two months, namely, late sowing; his month, namely, flax-cutting; his month, namely, barley harvest; his month…
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Gezer, Land of Israel
(Tel Gezer, Israel)
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10th Century BCE
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Belonging to Gealyahu son of the king.
Translated by Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass.
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Beth Zur, Land of Israel
(Khirbat Ţubayqah, West Bank)
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End of 7th–Beginning of 6th Century BCE
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The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a…
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Edmond Jabès
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Paris, France
Date:
1976