[Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Hebrew

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, loss in upper edge

Paper 9.8 X 14 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character columns: 1 lines: 9 (recto), 10 (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

Notes:

Each strophe starts a new line; verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.

The fragment contains one verse and four strophes from a dialectic poem, in which each strophe upholds an alternating side of a debate.

The debate here is between the Sabbath and circumcision, possibly on the background of the law that the performance of the latter overrides the prohibitions of the former. The refrain is [בין [שבת ומילה (comparable to Abraham ibn Ezra's בין שבת ומועד, Davidson Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, 545ב).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 324

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366218211