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[Ethical essay in praise of Torah study] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments RAR MS
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Talmud Torah (Judaism).
- Jewish ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Jewish ethics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Physical Description:
- 1 folio : nearly complete
- X cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule occasionally justified by stretching last character columns: lines: 18.
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Text breaks denoted by a colon; 2 words are partially vocalized.
- Based on biblical and Rabbinical sources. Most of the folio is a citation of a series of homilies of R. Elʻazar ben ʻAzaryah found in Talmud Hagigah 3a 55-3b 17 (based on Tosefta Sotah VII 9-12), slightly edited at the beginning in order to omit the narrative there that is irrelevant to the subject here.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- CAJS RAR MS, no.
- IMHM, no. F 38400 (PHIL UP Genizah NS7)
- OCLC:
- 249591933
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