Essay on Psalms 8:1-3 (DS25917) (Q99478)

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Essay on Psalms 8:1-3 (DS25917)
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    Essay on Psalms 8:1-3
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    Bible. Psalms VIII, 1-3--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
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    Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942. Tafsir Sefer Tehilim
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    Orient
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    Extent: 4 fols. : consecutive; partly obliterated
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    consecutive; partly obliterated
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    Contains the article on the beginning of Psalm VIII, with an extensive detail on the term למנצח. On verse 3 there is reference to the Tafsir of the fifth paragraph (ה) of Psalm CIX.
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    The style, terminology and intensive structure is similar to Saʻadia Gaon's Essays on the first four Psalms (published by Simon Eppenstein, Festscrhift zu ehren des Dr. A. Harkavy : aus anlass seines 70. lebenjahres / David Günzurg [ed]. St. Petersburg, 1908, p. 152-160).
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    In Saʻadia's short commentary on this Psalm (published edition, Y. Kafaḥ: Tehilim ; ʻim targum ṿe-perush ha-Gaʾon Seʻadyah ben Yosef Fayumi / tirgem le-ʻIvrit ... Yosef Kafaḥ. Jerusalem, 1966, p. 64) his reference : גיתית־ואלאמר פיה כמא שרחנא, could possibly be alluding to this essay.
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    Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
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    Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).
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    28 April 2025
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    28 April 2025
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