An unusually long text of a Jewish-Aramaic amulet of the sixth or seventh century, inscribed on a sheet of gold, is the topic of this paper. Its language is close to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic and to the late Targums. Its vocabulary consists of a number of rare words and some peculiar spellings. It is copied with some errors (e.g., mistaking the letters dalet and resh) from a book of magic recipes, and includes the title that accompanied the text, "For all authorities," and some instruction for its use. The goal of the spell is to reach a successful issue in litigation. The text reflects some typical Jewish notions and expressions, but it also refers to Shamash (or Shamish), a solar deity, and employs divine attributes that are rarely if ever employed in Jewish texts. Such oddities may be explained by its provenance in the Balkan area.

The credit for discovering the bowl published in this issue for the first time a bowl with a unique, puzzling and exciting text goes to Dan Levene. This text raises several problems. It is the only bowl text in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic known to me so far to make an explicit allusion to Jesus, and it does so in terms that are clearly borrowed from Christian usage. It also contains several allusions to mythological conceptions that are not familiar to us from other sources, but which must have been current.

The article reports on a find of manuscripts of the eleventh century CE in Early New Persian, Early Judeo-Persian, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic, recently discovered in Afghanistan. Some of the contents of this group of manuscripts is described, as well as the possible origins of the Jewish community where these documents were produced and kept. An example of a piece of poetry in commemoration of a deceased member of the community is given in transcription into Standard Persian. Some notes on the significance of these documents for studying the history of the Persian language and the dialect of Khorasan are supplied.