Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1 (DS25784) (Q99079)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Early midrash on Genesis 40:18-41:3; 46:28-47:1 (DS25784) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9934790473503681, Halper 114, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9934790473503681) |
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Bible. Genesis XL-XLVII.--Selections--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
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10th century?
10. century
900Gregorian
900Gregorian
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Orient
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Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v; formed from prior folio) : 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 folio 2
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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 folio 2
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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).
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The hand may be identical to that of the ancient palimpsest copy of compendium of Midrash Rabbah Genesis, Cambridge TS 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...
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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).
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Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
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Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
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Amram.
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28 April 2025
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28 April 2025
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