[Genealogy of the Exilarchs to David and Adam] : manuscript

Name:

Avraham ben Tamim, al-Raḥbi

Date:

1100s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Zakai, ha-Naśi; Exilarchate; Genealogy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

1 folio : lacking upper edge; folded widthwise into four parts (possibly in mail format); verso is blank

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A genealogical list of Exilarchs from Zakai ben ʻAzariah to David and Adam. Zakai ben ʻAzariah is the brother of the better-known Daniel, the Gaon of the Erets Israeli Yeshivah between 1051 and 1062. The list starts with almost four lines of honorifics applied to Zakai, followed by 13 lines of Exilarchs and their biblical antecedents. The last eight lines, filling to the end of the page, is an explanation in Judeo-Arabic in the importance of recording the Davidic decent of the Exilarchs.; Judeo-Arabic Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 462

Collection:

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