Showing Results 11 - 20 of 25
Public Access
Text
The daughters of Zelophehad, of Manassite family—son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph—came forward. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah…
Places:
Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
These are the slaves, the share in the paternal estate that Nir-Yama and Yahu-azza, sons of Ahikam, and Hagga, Yahu-izri, and Yahushu, sons of Ahikam, divided among themselves:
The slave woman Nana…
Places:
Babylon, Babylonia (Babylon, Iraq)
Date:
506 BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
[Hebrew:] We the undersigned, when the honorable old lady, Sra. Blanca, widow of R. Daniel Yeshurun (may his…
Contributor:
Blanca Yeshurun
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1651
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The Twentieth day of may in the yeare one Thousand and Seven hundred & Eight I Esther Browne of New York widdow Being Sick in Body, Butt of good and Perfect Memory, Thancks be to almighty god and…
Contributor:
Esther Browne
Places:
New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1708
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In the name of God Amen I Judith Baruh Alvares of the parish of Port Royal in the island of Jamaica widow being in an ill state of health but of sound mind and disposing memory thanks be to my eternal…
Contributor:
Judith Baruh Alvares
Places:
Port Royal, British America and the British West Indies (Port Royal, Jamaica)
Date:
1732
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
Realizing that life is not in the hands of man but is governed by the only living God Almighty in whom I believe and adore, whose Divine Mosaic Law I, His slave, follow and venerate with all my heart…
Contributor:
Abraham Mendes de Castro
Places:
Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1752
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On the twentieth of Adar, the second year (of Arses), the accession year of Darius, the king, in Samaria the citadel, which is in Samaria the province, Hananiah son of Beyadel sold a certain Yehohanan…
Places:
Samaria, Land of Israel (Wādī ad Dāliyah, Israel)
Date:
335 BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On the 21st of Kislev, that is day 21 of Mesore, year 6 of Artaxerxes the king, Mahseiah son of Jedaniah, a Jew, hereditary-property-holder in Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Haumadata…
Places:
Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
Date:
459 BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the year fifteen hundred and forty-nine, the seventh indiction, the first day of the month of February, during the time of the pontificate of the Holy Father in Christ Our Lord, Lord Paul III, pope…
Contributor:
Ovadiah Sforno
Places:
Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
1549
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
We the undersigned went in to visit R. David ben R. Moses Verlengo, may God preserve him, and found him ill, lying on his bed, but his words and speech were lucid and correct and orderly in his mouth…
Contributor:
David Verlengo
Places:
Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1656