[Gaonic gloss on Ḥagigah 21b-22a] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Talmudic discourse from a Gaonic responsum on Ḥagigah 21b-22a

Name:

Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 108

Timespan:

To 1040

Date:

1000s

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]

Subject:

Geonic literature; Responsa -- To 1040; Responsa

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : lacking upper half

Rights:

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

Notes:

Part of a Gaonic responsum, probably that of Ḥai or Sherirah Gaon. A complete version appears in: Teshuvot geʾonim ḳadmonim / Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils. Berlin : Friedlander, 1848, no. 72; Levin, Otsar ha-gaonim / Benjamin Manasseh Lewin. Haifa : [s.n], 1928-1943, vol. IV, responsa Section, pp. 37-45: no. 32).; The complete version is a lengthy discourse on a difficult passage in Ḥagigah (21b-22a) which requires much supplementary detail. The discourse starts with the standard heading for Gaonic responsa: וששאלתם, yet the text is clearly a gloss in the Gaonic style, flowing with the Talmudic text, adding dialectic clarifications and conjunctive phrases.; A gloss on the tractate of Ḥagigah attributed to Ḥai Gaon is mentioned in a few latter sources, but all are on mystical and philosophical topics dealt with in chapter 1.; See, Levin, op. cit. vol. IV, 1932, commentary section, item nos. 51-55, 57-58, 61, 67, 71, 73. The gloss on Ḥagigiah 23a ll. 6-7 is identical with that of R. Ḥananel, with a few lexical alterations. The rest is different.; Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 108