University of Pennsylvania, Halper 462

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25840

Shelfmark:

Halper 462

Title:

Genealogy of the Exilarchs to David and Adam

Bible genealogies

Author:

Avraham ben Tamim, al-Raḥbi

Avraham ben Tamim WIKIDATA

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

lacking upper edge; folded widthwise into four parts (possibly in mail format); verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : lacking upper edge; folded widthwise into four parts (possibly in mail format); verso is blank

Note:

A genealogical list of Exilarchs from Zakai ben ʻAzariah to David and Adam. Zakai ben ʻAzariah is the brother of the better-known Daniel, the Gaon of the Erets Israeli Yeshivah between 1051 and 1062. The list starts with almost four lines of honorifics applied to Zakai, followed by 13 lines of Exilarchs and their biblical antecedents. The last eight lines, filling to the end of the page, is an...
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Zakai, ha-Naśi

Genealogy--Religious aspects--Judaism

Exilarchate

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421383503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p30c4t39x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania