Halper 62 Judeo-Arabic commentary on Daniel 9-12 ; Judeo-Arabic essay on messianic eras
Title
Judeo-Arabic commentary on Daniel 9-12 ; Judeo-Arabic essay on messianic erasCall number
Halper 62(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Cairo Genizah Collection)
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Center for Advanced Judaic Studies LibraryLanguage
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Judeo-Arabic; HebrewOrigin
11th century or 12th century?
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Notes
- Fol. 1 appears to be from a preface to the essay, or perhaps unrelated to the essay, on fol. 2 (written in the same hand); it contains praise to God, and covers the recto and top two lines of the verso, in large characters in well-spaced lines;The remainder of the verso bears shorthand notes in a different hand, possibly preparatory notes for a sermon, starting with Song of Solomon I 3, leading to Exodus IV 30-31; Fol. 2 is from a historosophic essay in Judeo-Arabic, on Messianic eras, subdivided into numbered end period's (קצים a term based on Daniel XI 13 as in Saʹadia Gaon's Kitāb al-Amānāt wa'l-iʹtikādāt VII 3-5); This folio contains the end of a discussion on the seventh such period, that of the Hasmonean era, citing Talmud Shabbat 21b (introduced as in the late Gaonic monographs: קאל אלחכ) including the baraita there on lighting the Hanukkah Lamp; This is followed by the eighth era, the future salvation alluded to in Daniel XII 6-13; this essay may be an expanded subtopic in a work whose subject is Daniel (or at least the visions in Daniel XI-XII), a literary structure common in Saʹadia's works; The essay is followed by another, under the heading וישם פניו (Daniel XI 17), expounding on the vision in Daniel XI 17-24, attributing it to the Moslem era. He mentions מחמד ומלך אלאסלאם.
- Condition: non-consecutive; loss in lower exterior corner.
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18.1 X 14.6 cmSupport
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Material applied: black ink
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Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Adler.
Subjects topical
- Messianic era (Judaism) , Early works to 1800
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