Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 137: Excerpts from a version of Soferim. Judeo-Arabic essay on Biblical prophecies Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 137: Excerpts from a version of Soferim. Judeo-Arabic essay on Biblical prophecies 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/. There are missing fols. between fol. 2 and fols. 3-4 (=137 fol. 2-136 fol. 2), but they might be from the same essay. They deal with different types of biblical prophecies, classified into 4 prototypes; Fol. 1 (Halper 136.1) and its continuation at the top of fol. 2 (Halper 137.1) contain a numbered list of laws on various topics. The fragment contains from the end of ז to the beginning of י, which is interrupted after the first word; Although all the excerpts appear in Talmud or Midrash, they are recorded here in a version that is closest to their appearance in Soferim, which, in its various versions, is the only source common to all the material. ז is a laconic presentation (the beginning and end) of an article similar to material in the Talmudic passage Berakhot 61b l. 53-62a l. 13; This article is related to the end of Soferim version II: Masekhet Soferim / Michael Higger [ed.]. New York : Blokh, 1937]. ח is comprised of material in Soferim III 17 and V 9. ט-י is a laconic presentation (beginning and end) of Soferim IV. The orthography is occasionally primitive and plenum; After one line on the second folio (137 fol. 1a), the previous is interrupted with the beginning of a philosophic essay in a primitive, phonetic Judeo-Arabic. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 137 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940418263503681 Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Judeo-Arabic Excerpts from a version of Soferim. Judeo-Arabic essay on Biblical prophecies

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 14 X 11.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 13 (Halper 136, 1r-2r);lines: 12 (Halper 136, 2v); lines: 11-14 (Halper 137). Hebrew Oriental semi-square ("rough") Material applied: black ink

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