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67-523: Arbel was established in 1949 by demobilized soldiers on the lands of the depopulated Arab-Palestinian village of Hittin . It was initially a moshav shitufi , but became a moshav ovdim in 1959. In 161 BCE "Arbela" in the Arbel Valley was the site of a battle between the supporters of the Maccabees and Seleucid general Bacchides , who defeated and killed his opponents ( 1 Macc. 9:2 ). In

134-702: A lacuna in the relevant section of the manuscript . The 747 earthquake is described in the Great Chronographer and the Minor Chronicles, while events connected to the 750 earthquake are depicted there among a series of "wondrous events" which followed the birth of Leo IV. Accounts of both earthquakes appear in other chronicles, such as those written by Paul the Deacon (8th century), Anastasius Bibliothecarius (9th century), and George Kedrenos (12th century). Both earthquakes are absent in

201-483: A chronological error in placing the revolt of Abu Muslim as an event immediately following the earthquake. The revolt is known from other sources to have started in the Ramadan of 747. An account of the earthquake appeared in "Seventh earthquake", a piyyut (liturgical poem) used in synagogues . Liturgical poems such as this were used in place of fixed prayers on special religious occasions. The piyyut literary form

268-695: A distance of four miles." Other sources reported a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea , several days of aftershocks in Damascus , and towns swallowed up in the earth. The town of Umm el Kanatir and its ancient synagogue were destroyed. Historical sources describe how the death toll in Jerusalem numbered in the thousands. Many buildings, among them the Al-Aqsa Mosque , were severely damaged. However, some caveats are required. The view of

335-530: A footnote that the event could be dated to 6241 Anno Mundi , year 1060 of the Seleucid era, and year 749/750 Anno Domini. The dating was reportedly off by a year, since Michael's chronicle includes many chronological errors. It is unclear whether Michael himself was responsible for the errors, or whether they were introduced by copyists of the chronicle. The Zuqnin Chronicle dated the earthquake to year 1059 of

402-603: A great earthquake during the reign of Marwan II (reigned 744–750), which was supposedly felt everywhere. Houses collapsed and buried their inhabitants in ruins. Numerous people perished due to the earthquake. It was reportedly unpreceded in scale. The earth continued to shake for many days, and the survivors of the earthquake stayed out in the open until the tremors stopped. Abu'l-Fath dated this earthquake in Hijri year 131 (748/749 in Anno Domini). The chronicle however contains

469-499: A hesitant and possibly confused account of this earthquake. Ibn Taghribirdi (15th century) reports that multiple strong earthquakes affected Syria in Hijri year 130. Jerusalem was reportedly heavily damaged, while Damascus was abandoned for a period of 40 days. The population of Damascus fled to desolate areas. Mukadassi (10th century) reported than an earthquake in the days of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) threw down

536-792: A member of a military grouping of some kind to being a civilian ". Persons undergoing demobilization are removed from the command and control of their armed force and group and the transformation from a military mindset to that of a civilian begins. Although combatants become civilians when they acquire their official discharge documents the mental connection and formal ties to their military command structure still exist. To prevent soldiers from rejoining their armed groups, important preparatory work must be done to ensure that combatants are ready to be reintegrated into society and capable of returning to their civilian lives. Civilians play an important role in supporting combatants to return to civilian life by exposing them to civilian lifestyles and mindsets that combat

603-690: A number of structures, while the second earthquake completed the process and was the immediate cause of their collapse. The historian Theophanes the Confessor (9th century) is one of the major sources for the 8th century. He lists two earthquakes that affected Palestine and the Levant in the mid-8th century. The first earthquake is dated to 18 January of the year 6238 of the Byzantine calendar (the year 747 in Anno Domini era). Theophanes reports that

670-461: A point system that favored length and certain types of service. The British armed forces were demobilized according to an "age-and-service" scheme. The phrase demob happy refers to demobilization and is broadly applied to the feeling of relief at imminent release from a time-serving burden, such as a career. In the Russian language , it is known as dembel and has become a certain tradition in

737-557: A press for grape syrup. The caves on the steep northern cliffs of Mount Arbel were refortified into a cave castle by Ali Beg, the son of 17th-century Druze ruler Fakhr ad-Din al-Maani . In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the ruins, and in 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund 's Survey of Western Palestine found at "Kh. Irbid" "important ruins", with "traces of an Arab village". By 1948,

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804-486: A semi-arid area. Such events would be more common during the year's wet season. The only clearly fantastical element of the narrative is the talking animal. Theophanes is thought to have used as his source a Melkite chronicle written c. 780 in Palestine, and later transported by monks who fled religious persecution in Palestine. Theophanes' information on Iraq and North Syria may have been based on local sources using

871-407: A series of earthquakes between 747 and 749, later conflated for different reasons into one, not least due to the use of different calendars in different sources. It seems probable that the second quake, centered more to the north, which created massive damage mainly in northern Israel and Jordan, did so not so much due to its catastrophic magnitude, but rather as a result of buildings being weakened by

938-469: A specific chronology for the event was Elijah of Nisibis, who reports that the earthquake actually started in year 1059 of the Seleucid era and ended in year 1060 of the same era (Spring 748 and Spring 749). He counted spring as the start of the year. The Chronicle of 1234 dates the earthquake to year 1060 of the Seleucid era. Michael the Syrian offers no clear date, though a 19th-century translator noted in

1005-485: A three-pronged approach to conflict management. This includes disarmament , demobilization, and reintegration to take combatants out of conflict situations as well as remove weapons and help former members of armed groups rejoin society. In the final days of World War II , for example, the United States Armed Forces developed a demobilization plan which would discharge soldiers on the basis of

1072-544: Is Mount Gerizim , located near Nablus. The lack of information on Jerusalem in Samaritan sources may reflect the community's lack of interest in the city or even their disdain for it. An earthquake narrative appears in the Chronicle Adler, which is a compilation of older reports. The earthquake narrative also appears in some expanded versions of the chronicle of Abu'l-Fath (14th century). The original version of

1139-713: Is a lament for an earthquake which caused widespread destruction and extensive casualties in Tiberias . It speaks of "fear" and "dark chaos" in Tiberias. The poem also reports that the Sharon plain was flooded due to the same earthquake. In modern history, the Sharon plain is the name exclusively used for the central section of the Israeli coastal plain . An older geographic sense is reported by Eusebius (4th century), who used

1206-430: Is dated to 745/746 by Theophanes. Al-Suyuti reports on two distinct earthquakes events which damaged Jerusalem and Damascus . The first event can be dated to Hijri year 130 (747/748 Anno Domini), and the second to Hijri year 141 (748/749). Al-Suyuti uses as a primary source the narrative of historian Abdalla al-Katir (8th–9th century), as transmitted by al-Wadai (14th century). This narrative reports that Damascus

1273-619: Is likely that there was a localized tsunami-like storm wave in the Dead Sea . It was caused either by a nearby fault , a massive local slide, or by a temporary halt in the flow of the Jordan River. A change in the flow of the Jordan River may have caused a dam-breaking wave at the inflow of the river to the Dead Sea. Beyond these chronicles, Agapius of Mendidj (10th century) mentioned both earthquake-induced flooding and inundation along

1340-488: Is the dismantling, packing and transport back to storage of the diving spread, and where relevant, restoring the site to initial condition. Mobilization is the converse process. This military -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 749 Galilee earthquake A devastating earthquake known in scientific literature as the Earthquake of 749 struck on January 18, 749, in areas of

1407-554: Is the process of standing down a nation's armed forces from combat-ready status. This may be as a result of victory in war , or because a crisis has been peacefully resolved and military force is no longer necessary. The opposite of demobilization is mobilization , which is the act of calling up forces for active military service. Forceful demobilization of a defeated enemy is called demilitarization . The United Nations defines demobilization as "a multifaceted process that officially certifies an individual's change of status from being

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1474-696: The Companions of the Prophet . There are four major Syriac chronicles which mention damage from earthquakes, though may not all be describing the same events. The first chronicle was the Zuqnin Chronicle , mistakenly attributed to Dionysius I Telmaharoyo (9th century), but currently thought to have been written by an anonymous 9th-century monk of the Zuqnin Monastery . The second was the chronicle of Elijah of Nisibis (11th century),

1541-601: The Seleucid era , but which had started their counting from the Spring of 311 BC, rather than the Fall of 312 BC. A resulting transcription error may explain why Theophanes dates his second earthquake to 750 rather than 749. Nikephoros I of Constantinople (9th century) gives a nearly identical description of the 750 earthquake. The 747 earthquake is not described in the currently extant text of Theophanes, though this may be due to

1608-532: The Umayyad Caliphate , with the epicenter in Galilee . The most severely affected areas were West and East of the Jordan River. The cities of Tiberias , Beit She'an , Pella , Gadara , and Hippos were largely destroyed while many other cities across the Levant were heavily damaged. The casualties numbered in the tens of thousands. There are firm reasons to believe that there were either two, or

1675-504: The 1980s and 1990s agreed in attributing all descriptions to an earthquake occurring on 18 January, 749. This reduction was based on two Hebrew texts concerning an earthquake on this date and a commemorative fast. A different view is that the primary sources describe at least two different seismic events, set apart by up to three years in time and hundreds of kilometers in distance. This is based on comparison of available primary sources on this period. The first earthquake may have weakened

1742-712: The 750 earthquake or a subsequent earthquake of the early Abbasid era. Arab reports of one or two earthquakes appear in two 11th-century compilations of traditional accounts of the Abd el Rahman family of Jerusalem. The compilers were the cousins al-Wasiti and Ibn al-Murajja. Based on their accounts, the earthquakes damaged the eastern and western parts of the Al-Aqsa Compound in Jerusalem. Repairs were ordered by Al-Mansur (reigned 754–775) when he visited Jerusalem in Hijri year 141 (757/758 Anno Domini). The Al-Aqsa Mosque

1809-661: The Hijri year corresponds to year 737/738 Anno Domini and the Diocletian year corresponds to year 744/745 Anno Domini. They both connect the earthquake's dates to the year of ascension of Pope Michael I. They give the year of Michael's ascent in the throne as 737 Anno Domini, while it has been dated to 743 Anno Domini by other sources. Both texts contain other errors in the chronology of the Patriarchs of Alexandria. The chronicle of Mekhitar of Ayrivank (13th century) mentions an earthquake taking place in 751 Anno Domini, during

1876-540: The Khazar . Leo IV was a son of Constantine V and his birth is safely dated to 25 January, 750. This second earthquake destroyed some cities in Syria, and damaged others. A number of cities reportedly slid down from mountainous positions to "low laying plains". The moving cities reportedly stopped at a distance of about 6 mi (9.7 km) from their original positions. Eyewitness accounts from Mesopotamia reported that

1943-561: The Seleucid era. None of the four Chronicles dates the event to 18 January. The date would nearly coincide with the Feast of Mary for the Seeds (blessing of the crops), one of the principal feasts of Mary, mother of Jesus in the Syrian tradition. It was celebrated on 15 January. In 749, the feast occurred on a Sunday, and so it would be celebrated a day or two following the actual date. The Zuqnin Chronicle mentions only one locality damaged by

2010-539: The Soviet and post-Soviet Armed Forces. A United States equivalent is "short-timer's disease", comparable to " senioritis " among United States high school students. The United Nations Peacekeeping Operational Manual lists two different approaches to demobilization. These approaches are the semi-permanent demobilization sites (cantonment) or the mobile method which means demobilization at the sites where ex-combatants are gathered. In professional diving , demobilization

2077-542: The Syrian coast and destruction in Tiberias. He dates the event to the month of January, but offers no year date for this earthquake. He dates the event to having followed Constantine V incursion into Syria and the conquest of Germanikeia (modern Kahramanmaraş ) and to have preceded Abu Muslim 's leadership in the Abbasid Revolution (in May 747, or the Ramadan of Hijri year 129). The dating indicates that Agapius

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2144-519: The cave-village as a storage base at the beginning of the First Jewish–Roman War against Rome in 66 CE. The ancient town of Arbel is thought by some to have been located at the site of Khirbet Wadi Hamam ("Ruins [in the] Valley of the Doves"; Hurvat Vradim being the modern Hebrew name), on the other side of Arbel Valley, on the eastern slopes of Mount Nitay and close to the stream bed; if that

2211-467: The chronicle ended with the rise in power of Muhammad , but was then expanded to bring it up to date. Abu'l-Fath wrote his chronicle in 1355, following a discussion he had with a High Priest over the absence of texts on the history of the Samaritans. He used as sources currently extinct Samaritan texts, and also historical materials he gathered from Damascus and Gaza City . His chronicle places

2278-443: The chronicles of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th century), Michael Glykas (12th century), and Leo Grammaticus (13th century). George Hamartolos (9th century) repeated verbatim Theophanes' account of the 749/750 earthquake, and only commented on the oracle-like mule. Joannes Zonaras (14th century) dates the earthquake as having followed the fall of Germanikeia (modern Kahramanmaraş ) at the hands of Constantine V. This siege event

2345-535: The church of Maboug (Manbij), which was located about 500 km (310 mi) away from Mount Tabor. Michael the Syrian and the Chronicle of 1234 describe earthquake damage in Northern Syria and the Moab . They list among other damaged localities Ghautah, Dareiya ( Darayya ), Bosra , Nawa, Derat, Baalbek , Damascus , and Beit Qoubaye. Beit Qoubaye has been identified with Koubaiyat (or Al-Qoubaiyat ), which

2412-474: The city at that time is considered unlikely to have triggered a nationwide day of fasting. It has been suggested that the poem depicts the 1033/1034 earthquake. However the fast was supposedly mentioned in passing by Pinneas the Poet, who was considered an "ancient" writer in a text dating to the 10th century. This led to a theory that the earthquake of the poem took place between the 7th and the 9th century, following

2479-662: The damaged localities, He claims that the earthquake harmed no Orthodox churches or monasteries. Severus also reports that many ships were lost at sea due to the earthquake. Severus gives the date of the earthquake as 21 Tuba (17 January), on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God . In the tradition of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria , the Dormition was celebrated between 16 and 18 January, unlike

2546-592: The earthquake affected Palestine by the Jordan River , and all of Syria. Churches and monasteries reportedly collapsed in the desert of the Holy City ( Jerusalem ). Theophanes reports that a second earthquake took place in the year 6241 (749/750 in the Anno Domini system). He does not give an exact date for the event, but the earthquake narrative immediately follows Theophanes' entry on the birth of Leo IV

2613-502: The earthquake contains chronological errors. George Elmacin (13th century) and the Chronicon orientale attributed to Ibn al-Rāhib (13th century) both report widespread destruction of cities by the earthquake, and loss of life either in the ruins or due to flooding in the coasts. But they do not mention specific localities. They date the event to Hijri year 120 or to the year 460 of the Diocletian era . The dates are incompatible as

2680-538: The earthquake struck in a Sabbatical year, in which case, the translation of the term would be "earthquake of the seventh year." All local and regional earthquake catalogues list one or more earthquakes that affected the Middle East in the mid-8th century, with reported damage in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine , and Syria . The primary sources offer multiple year dates for the seismic events, but seismic catalogues of

2747-690: The earthquake, Maboug (modern Manbij ). It also mentions vaguely damage in the Western region. In the Syriac Orthodox Church , the western region referred to the ecclesiastic province centered in Antioch , as opposed to the eastern region which was the ecclesiastic province centered in Tikrit . There was no strictly geographic definition of the ecclesiastic provinces. The other three chronicles list many localities in Syria which suffered from

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2814-451: The earthquake. In the Palestine region, these chronicles mention that the earthquake damaged Tiberias , Mount Tabor , and Jericho . In contrast to the Arab chronicles, they do not mention earthquake damage in Jerusalem. Elijah mentions that a village near Mount Tabor was displaced by the earthquake, but does not mention either damage to the area or human casualties. He also mentions damage in

2881-466: The ground was split at a distance of 2 mi (3.2 km). From this new chasm emerged a different type of soil, "very white and sandy". The reports also spoke of a mule-like animal emerging from the chasm and speaking in a human voice. The distances in Theophanes' account are scaled up. Otherwise this is a credible account of the earthquake causing landslides , surface rupture, and sand boils in

2948-592: The hill a cavern, in which was the tomb of the mother of Moses ." In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596, Irbid appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the liwa' (district) of Safad . It had a population of 2 households, both Muslims. They paid taxes on wheat , barley , summer crops, cotton , goats and/or beehives, olive oil press and/or

3015-399: The holy month of Ramadan, so the offered date may have been chosen to make the story seem more reliable. Another traditional account from Jerusalem appeared in several later chronicles. It reported that there was earthquake damage across Syria ( Bilad al-Sham ), but places its emphasis on destruction in Jerusalem itself. It also reported injuries to the descendants of Shadad ibn Aus , one of

3082-427: The land belonged to the Arab village of Hittin , which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . Arbel was established in 1949 by demobilized soldiers. Initially a moshav shitufi (a more socialist-type moshav, closer to the kibbutz model), Arbel became a moshav ovdim in 1959. Arbel is notable for the ruins of an ancient Jewish synagogue , which stands amid the remnants of an ancient Jewish village on

3149-505: The number of casualties exceeded 100,000, while in the Chronicle of 1234 , there were 800 casualties in the fortress of Beit Cubaya, Damascus. In the cities of Judea, Samaria and Galilee, nearly 600 villages altogether were severely affected. A tsunami-like event was reported in the Dead Sea and probable inundation occurred in its southern basin. "Ra'ash shvi'it" is mentioned in piyyutim ( Jewish liturgical poems). Some rabbis believe

3216-453: The poem evokes a section of the Book of Habakkuk . The section in the ancient book describes an earthquake as "wrath" which marches through the land in indignation. The poem repeatedly mentions a commemorative fast about the earthquake. It dates the fast to the 23rd day of the month Shevat . It is unclear whether the "seventh" in the title refers to the seventh shock of a singular earthquake or

3283-403: The previous, more southerly earthquake. According to historical sources, supported by archaeological findings, Scythopolis ( Beit She'an ), Tiberias , Capernaum , Hippos (Sussita), Jerash and Pella , suffered widespread damage. A Coptic priest from Alexandria reported that support beams had shifted in houses in Egypt and a Syrian priest wrote that a village near Mount Tabor had "moved

3350-553: The reign of Constantine V. He does not connect this earthquake to 18 January, the date in which the Armenians of the Holy Land celebrate Christmas . There are earthquake reports in two sources from a community of Samaritans , located near Nablus . They do not mention any earthquake damage in Jerusalem, which was located about 50 km (31 mi) from Nablus. Samaritans reject the sanctity of Jerusalem, and their holy place

3417-400: The rigid military mindset soldiers acquire during their time of service. Demobilization can be partial or complete depending on the number of units removed from the command structure. The process is often a symbolic and significant part of the peace process during which the conflicting sides acknowledge their intent to consolidate peace. The United Nations identifies demobilization as part of

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3484-541: The sanctuary, with the exception of the part surrounding the mihrab . His narrative has been connected to the 750 earthquake event. In 750, Marwan II of the Umayyad Caliphate died and the Abbasid dynasty succeeded him. The Commemoratium de Casis Dei ( c.  808 ), compiled by agents of Charlemagne , mentions that the Church of Maria Nea was still in ruins following its destruction in an earthquake. This may be

3551-410: The second half of the second century BCE, the village of Arbel was the home of the sage Nittai of Arbela . In 38 BCE, Jewish partisans of Antigonus who were opposing Herod in his conquest of the land with the help of Roman , sought refuge from his troops in the caves dotting the steep northern cliffs of Mount Arbel, but couldn't escape death. Their story is told by Josephus , who himself fortified

3618-412: The seventh earthquake in a wider series of events. If may reflect a traditional narrative with no other surviving texts. The poem has been tentatively dated as composed between the 10th and the 12th century. In this period Tiberias was damaged by two other earthquakes, one taking place in 1033/1034 and the other in 1202. By the end of the 11th century, Tiberias' Jewish population was very small. Damage to

3685-568: The severity of the damage provoked by the 749 quake is contested by new research. Earlier claims that the large Umayyad administrative buildings south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque were so badly damaged that they were abandoned and used as stone quarries and sources of lime, lime kilns being found at the site, is reportedly wrong, the buildings staying in use until the 1033 earthquake . Similarly, the new Arab capital city at Ramla shows only minimal signs of damage. Agapius of Hierapolis claimed

3752-465: The synagogue itself situated so as to make use of the stone as a handsome door. It is carved with decorative floral motifs and medallions. A carved groove for a mezuzah can be seen. Three sides of the building had carved stone benches. The two-storey building had three rows of columns with Corinthian capitals on the first floor and Ionic capitals on the second. Demobilization Demobilization or demobilisation (see spelling differences )

3819-530: The term for a section of the Jordan Valley and the Yizrael Valley. This section covered the area between Mount Tabor and Tiberias. The narrative poem reports that disaster befell "the city", with both the old and the young perishing. From the context it is unclear whether the poem is still speaking of Tiberias, or whether it instead reported earthquake damage in Jerusalem as well. In language,

3886-514: The third was the chronicle of Michael the Syrian (12th century), and the fourth and last was the Chronicle of 1234 (13th century). There is some dating confusion. The chronicles all follow the Seleucid era calendar, but use two different reckonings of the era (the Babylonian and Macedonian versions). They all cover the second earthquake described by Theophanes. The only one who provides

3953-442: The tradition of the Byzantine church which celebrated the Dormition on 15 August. Severus gives no exact year for the earthquake, but in his narrative the earthquake is connected to the imprisonment and release of Pope Michael I of Alexandria , and a Nubian incursion into Egypt. These events were dated by Severus to Hijri year 130 (747/748 in Anno Domini ). The date may be off by a year, as his description of events before and after

4020-443: The western edge of the moshav. Archaeologists concluded that it was built in the fourth century CE, shows at least two construction phases, being rebuilt in the sixth century, and was probably used continuously until the eighth century, when a conflagration finally destroyed it—probably connected to the catastrophic 749 earthquake . The door of the synagogue, still standing, was carved from a massive natural outcropping of limestone, and

4087-415: Was affected by an earthquake in Hijri year 130, which led the inhabitants of the city to abandon it. The poultry market of Damascus collapsed under fallen rocks. In Hijri year 131, a second earthquake split the roof of the mosque. The open sky was visible from the interior of the mosque. A subsequent earthquake closed the crack in the roof of the mosque. The historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (13th century) gives

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4154-479: Was describing the earliest of Theophanes' two earthquakes. Severus ibn al-Muqaffa (10th century) reports earthquake damage along the Mediterranean coast. The earthquake was felt strongly in Egypt, but reportedly the only Egyptian city which was damaged was Damietta . He otherwise reports the destruction of 600 towns and villages between Gaza and the farthest extremity of Persia ( Iran ). He names none of

4221-510: Was located at the foot of Jebel Akkar, about 45 km (28 mi) southwest of Homs and 25 km (16 mi) south of the Krak des Chevaliers . Their narratives mention no earthquake damage to the coastal cities of the Mediterranean Sea , though they do mention stormy seas and the submersion of a Yemenite coastal fortress. They mention destruction in Tiberias and "lateral displacement of springs" near Jericho. Based on their descriptions, it

4288-410: Was on a pilgrimage through Palestine, and noted that he came to the village of Irbil, after leaving Hittin , on his way to Tabariyyah . He further noted that "on the south side of [Irbil] rises a mountain; and on the mountain is an enclosure, which same contains four graves-those of the sons of Yacub (Jacob) - .[..] -who were brothers of Yusuff (Joseph) [..] And going onward I came to a hill, and below

4355-604: Was repaired by 757, but then damaged by a new earthquake. It was repaired again by order of Al-Mahdi (reigned 775–785), following his visit in Jerusalem at Hijri year 163. One of the traditions preserved by Ibn al-Murajja reports that the first earthquake took place during the Ramadan of Hijri year 130 (in May), during a cold and rainy night. A crack appeared in the mosque, but supposedly closed immediately by order of Heaven . Muslim literature often associated earthquake narratives with

4422-502: Was the case, the village only moved to the site of Khirbet Irbid, close to where the modern moshav stands now, during the Middle Ages. The Jewish scholar Ishtori Haparchi , writing in 1322, thought to identify ancient Arbel with the Arab village itself, in its location on Mount Arbel, 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) northwest of Tiberias . Ceramics from the late Roman and Byzantine periods have been found. In 1047 CE, Nasir Khusraw

4489-500: Was widespread in Palestine since the time of Talmud . The literary structure and style of a piyyut did not change much over the centuries. The date of composition of "Seventh earthquake" can not be deduced by use of either its literary form or its language. A second Jewish narrative of the earthquake appears in a book of prayers compiled in the 10th or 11th century. It was found in the Cairo Geniza . The piyyut poem in question

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