[Midrash on Psalms CIV] : manusript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). RAR MS 85.126.41

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

Language:

Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Midrash; Aggada; Libel and slander -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800; Jewish ethics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 fols. : non-consecutive, nearly complete; losses, fading, particularly towards lower end of fols. and center folio 1

Rights:

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

Notes:

A fragment from an antique Aggadic text on Psalms, not the common Midrash Shoḥer ṭov.; Fol. 1 starts with the incipit citing Psalm CIV 4 as the subject of the article.; Fol. 2 is on ibid. 6. Both articles deal with the topic of slander. Some of the material is Talmudic, with slight alterations. This includes Yerushalmi Peah I 1, (contracted as in Midrash Rabbah Leviticus XXVI) on fol. 1 verso, and a short citation of Megillah 13a on fol. 2 verso (followed by the reference כולו במגילה עד, end of line 16). There are also named Amoraic passages that have no known parallel in Talmud and Midrashim.; Hebrew and Aramaic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, RAR MS 85.126.41