[Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision] : manuscript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 324

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, loss in upper edge

Rights:

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

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).; Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 324