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Maʻaśeh taluy, 1860 or 1863.
מעשה תלוי
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Segre, Joshua, -1797, attributed name.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ.
- Christianity--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.
- Christianity.
- Judaism--Apologetic works--Early works to 1800.
- Judaism.
- Infancy narratives (Gospels)--Controversial literature.
- Infancy narratives (Gospels).
- Religious disputations.
- Polemics.
- Jews--Belarus--Vaŭkavysk--19th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by D. Silverman, Helena Montana (pen inscription, end flyleaf).
- Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, gift of Norman Winestine of Helena, Montana (bookplate, inside front binding).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (24 leaves) : paper ; 98 x 76 (91 x 70) mm.
- Other Title:
- complete title : Bo ye-supar Maʻaśeh taluy / me-en ha-rashaʻ Yeshu nimtsa ṿeha-nifla asher herʼah la-hem be-ḥayaṿ ṿeha-sof asher hayah bo.
- complete title : בו יסופר מעשה תלוי / מאין הרשע יש"ו נמצא והנפלא אשר הראה להם בחיו והסוף אשר היה בו.
- Place of Publication:
- 1860 or 1863.
- תר"כ?-תרכ"ג.
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This manuscript is a copy of a work in the genre Toledot Yeshu (a Jewish biographical genre to the life and origins of Jesus of Nazareth); this specific work attributed to Joshua (Salvador) Segre (Casale Monferrato 1705? - Scandiano 1797?; writer and controversialist, attributed to him by Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi; Dizinario storico degli autori Ebrei, 125-6); this work includes a literary aggregation of Rabbinic teachings about Jesus's biography; the term taluy, from the title, may allude to capital punishment (תלוי implies hanging by Beth din as well as an allusion to the crucifixion; cf. כל הנסקלין ניתלין (Sanhedrin 6:4)). This copy was written in "Ṿolḳaṿishḳ", then in the Russian Empire (today Vaŭkavysk, Belarus); written in a Lithuanian-Russian cursive script, with paragraph openings mostly in an eastern-Ashkenazic square script, and quotes in a Sephardic-style semicursive script; bound in marbled boards (now worn, faded and creased). Title decorated; traced flora in framing, and traced ornament in center of title page (f. 1r).
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 361.
- OCLC:
- 1371067850
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