Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 114: Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1

Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 114: Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 114: Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1 are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Fol. 1 contains Midrash on the end of Ṿa-yeshev to the beginning of Miḳets, Genesis XL 18- XLI 3. Fol. 2 is from Ṿa-yigash ibid. XLVI 28- XLVII 14. Much of the material is unique, but some parallels can be drawn to other midrashic texts, such as Midrash Rabah Bereshit 88 (fol. 2a); The hand may be identical to that of the ancient palimpsest copy of compendium of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, Cambridge T-S 12.208 and 189, whose 8 extant fols. (=2 bifolia) were published by M. Sokoloff in Ḳiṭʻe Bereshit rabah min ha-Genizah [Genizah Fragments of Bereshit Rabba], Jerusalem 1982, description and bibliographic details in p. 22 (manuscript 10), a facsimile on pl. 10, the list of remnants on p. 209 (the Halper fragment is not listed; see also M. Sokoloff and Y. Yahalom, Revue d'Histoire des Textes VIII (1978), pp. 109-132); the Cambridge fragments contain 28-29 lines per side [if from same codex, fol. 2 likely precedes Cambridge T-S 12.189, fol. 2]; See: Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter collection : including a fragment of the twenty-second Psalm according to Origen's Hexapla, ed. Charles Taylor, Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1900. Appendix II n. 2 : The Acts (p. 93-95 , pl. XI). Condition: non-consecutive; losses from upper exterior, along center crease, holes (rodent damage?); faded, especially flesh side; staining from inactive mold; moisture damage along lower corner of fol. 2. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 114 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9934790473503681

Hebrew; Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1

Parchment

16.1 X 12 cm (bifolium 24.4 X 19.5 cm). Columns: 1; lines: 31 (1r), 30 (1v), 31 (2r), 32 (2v). Hebrew Oriental semi-square Greek Biblical majuscule Black ink

10th century?

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