University of Pennsylvania, Halper 324

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25919

Shelfmark:

Halper 324

Title:

Dialectic poem debating between Sabbath and circumcision

Text on circumcision

Place:

Orient

Date:

12th century-13th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

torn, loss in upper edge

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : torn, loss in upper edge

Note:

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

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940420043503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3j09wp22/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania