ABSTRACT
The Syriac “community,” academic, clerical and lay, shows its regard for Sebastian Brock through this Festschrift and it is an honour to be asked to contribute to it. The new Syriac discoveries, initially published by J. Teixidor, created considerable interest at the time of publication. This chapter attempts to provide some further discussion of legal and terminological aspects of P2. The text records and enacts the transfer of a debt from one creditor to another, the new creditor perhaps having the role of a debt-collector. In terms of overall structure it is to be noted that this document is of die “double-document” type. The various legal corpora differ slightly with regard to their use of objective and subjective language. The phrase appears to be a legal merism indicating “whatever happens,” “unconditionally”.
