Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 324: Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 324: Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision 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/. Each strophe starts a new line; verse endings denoted by a sof pasuḳ; The fragment contains one verse and four strophes from a dialectic poem, in which each strophe upholds an alternating side of a debate; The debate here is between the Sabbath and circumcision, possibly on the background of the law that the performance of the latter overrides the prohibitions of the former. The refrain is [בין [שבת ומילה (comparable to Abraham ibn Ezra's בין שבת ומועד, Davidson Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry, 545ב). Condition: torn, loss in upper edge. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 324 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420043503681 Hebrew Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision

Paper

 9.8 X 14 cm Columns: 1; lines: 9 (recto), 10 (verso); ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character. Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

12th century-13th century?

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