University of Pennsylvania, Halper 445

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26020

Shelfmark:

Halper 445

Title:

Anti-Christian polemical treatise

Polemics

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century-15th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : complete

Note:

Incipits in enlarged characters in red ink, over a space.
Part of an anti-Christian polemical work in Judeo-Arabic, refuting the astronomical soundness of the Christian calendar in general, and of the computation of Easter in particular. The author refers to the Rabbinites as a sect אלרבאנין מן אליהוד, indicating that he is a Karaite. The folio includes the end of the second chapter, and the beginning of the third.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Religious disputations

Polemics

Christianity

Controversial literature

Karaitic literature

Christianity--Controversial literature

Calendars

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32b8vw8z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania