Tisha B'Av

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An annual fast day in Judaism over the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem

Names

Hebrew: יום ט׳ באב = YWM 9 BʾB 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Fast of Ab: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 10, 52 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “Tisha B'Av” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/769.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Wikipedia matching; and matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract and Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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