[Dialectic poem between wine and water] : manuscript

Name:

Yehudah ben Eliyahu, ha-Zaḳen

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

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete; losses along edges

Rights:

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

Notes:

Strophe endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ.; Nearly three strophes (ו-ד-ה) from יום עמדו לריב לפני עם סגולה (Davidson, TMHP 1877י) a poetic debate between wine and water by Judah ben Elijah, in which each strophe upholds an alternating side of a debate.; Each strophe has eight lines, seven rhyme and the last ends הו-; sporadically vocalized; a complete version is found in a bifolium, Cambridge 8 K15 9: the acrostic signature reads יהודה בן אליהו חזק.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 321

Collection:

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