[Excerpts from a version of Soferim. Judeo-Arabic essay on Biblical prophecies] : manuscript
- Creator
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 136
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 137
- Form
- books
- Date
- between 900 and 999
- Language
- Hebrew
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subject
- Jewish law
- Scribes, Jewish -- Early works to 1800
- Jewish philosophy -- Early works to 1800
- Jewish philosophy
- Scribes, Jewish
- Prophecies
- Extent
- 4 fols. (2 bifolia) 1r (146.1r), 1v (146.1v), 2r (147.1r), 2v (147.1v), 3r (147.2r), 3v (147.2v), 4r (146.2r), 4v (146.2v) :
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- There are missing fols. between fol. 2 and fols. 3-4 (=137 fol. 2-136 fol. 2), but they might be from the same essay. They deal with different types of biblical prophecies, classified into 4 prototypes.
- Fol. 1 (Halper 136.1) and its continuation at the top of fol. 2 (Halper 137.1) contain a numbered list of laws on various topics. The fragment contains from the end of ז to the beginning of י, which is interrupted after the first word.
- Although all the excerpts appear in Talmud or Midrash, they are recorded here in a version that is closest to their appearance in Soferim, which, in its various versions, is the only source common to all the material. ז is a laconic presentation (the beginning and end) of an article similar to material in the Talmudic passage Berakhot 61b l. 53-62a l. 13.
- This article is related to the end of Soferim version II: Masekhet Soferim / Michael Higger [ed.]. New York : Blokh, 1937]. ח is comprised of material in Soferim III 17 and V 9. ט-י is a laconic presentation (beginning and end) of Soferim IV. The orthography is occasionally primitive and plenum.
- After one line on the second folio (137 fol. 1a), the previous is interrupted with the beginning of a philosophic essay in a primitive, phonetic Judeo-Arabic.
- Table of contents: 1r (146.1r) -- 1v (146.1v) -- 2r (147.1r) -- 2v (147.1v) -- 3r (147.2r) -- 3v (147.2v) -- 4r (146.2r) -- 4v (146.2v).
- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 137
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 136
- Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Adler.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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