[Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Haggadic commentary on Bereshit 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1; Palimpsest of Book of Acts(?) (Sixth century?)

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 114

Date:

0900s

Language:

Hebrew; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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:

Aggada; Palimpsests; Midrash

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v; formed from prior folio) : non-consecutive; losses from upper exterior, along center crease, holes (rodent damage?); faded, especially flesh side; staining from inactive mold; moisture damage along lower corner of folio 2

Rights:

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

Notes:

Fol. 1 contains Midrash on the end of Ṿa-yeshev to the beginning of Miḳets, Genesis XL 18- XLI 3. Fol. 2 is from Ṿa-yigash ibid. XLVI 28- XLVII 14. Much of the material is unique, but some parallels can be drawn to other midrashic texts, such as Midrash Rabah Bereshit 88 (fol. 2a).; The hand may be identical to that of the ancient palimpsest copy of compendium of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, Cambridge TS 12.208 and 189, whose 8 extant fols. (=2 bifolia) were published by M. Sokoloff in Ḳiṭʻe Bereshit rabah min ha-Genizah [Genizah Fragments of Bereshit Rabba], Jerusalem 1982, description and bibliographic details in p. 22 (manuscript 10), a facsimile on pl. 10, the list of remnants on p. 209 (the Halper fragment is not listed; see also M. Sokoloff and Y. Yahalom, Revue d'Histoire des Textes VIII (1978), pp. 109-132); the Cambridge fragments contain 28-29 lines per side [if from same codex, fol. 2 likely precedes Cambridge TS 12.189, fol. 2].; See: Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter collection : including a fragment of the twenty-second Psalm according to Origen's Hexapla, ed. Charles Taylor, Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1900. Appendix II n. 2 : The Acts (p. 93-95 , pl. XI).; Hebrew and Greek. Hebrew; Fragmented Greek characters, disposed vertically in 3 lines within center margins, along joint on hair side; no other Greek characters visible to naked eye, none visible on flesh side; some additional characters seem to appear with digital enhancement, but currently impossible to make out text; the identification with the Cambridge TS 12.208 and 189 bifolia is tentative, given ruling differences (Halper 30-32 lines; Cambridge 28-29 lines), and paucity of identifiable text, notwithstanding kinship between Hebrew texts.; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 114