[Commentary on Genesis 1:14-19] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Essay on the function of the sun and moon

Name:

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

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:

Hebrew philology -- Early works to 1800; Polemics -- Early works to 1800; Religious disputations; Jewish calendar -- Early works to 1800; Jewish astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Karaitic literature; Jewish astronomy; Jewish calendar; Polemics; Hebrew philology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : losses along all edges, faded

Rights:

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

Notes:

Text breaks are signified by a sof pasuḳ.; A Judeo-Arabic treatise dealing with the functions of the sun and moon in calendation. Much philological detail is given on the terms אור, אורה, מאור citing biblical sources. The verses in Genesis I 14-19 seem to be the subject.; The article in R. Saʻadia Gaon's Commentary (Perushe Rav Seʻadyah Gaʾon li-Vereshit / Moshe Zucker [ed.]. New York : JTS, 1984, p. 38) appears to be along similar lines, and is missing in the middle.; This issue, related to this biblical passage, was a central point of polemic contention between the Rabbanites and Karaites, as Japheth ben ʻAli wrote an extensive article in his Tafsir on Genesis on this topic (ms. Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, B 51, pp. 29-49).; Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 450

Collection:

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