University of Pennsylvania, Halper 62
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25734
- Shelfmark:
- Halper 62
- Title:
- Judeo-Arabic commentary on Daniel 9-12 ; Judeo-Arabic essay on messianic eras
- Place:
- Orient
- Date:
- 11th century or 12th century?
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic
- Material:
- non-consecutive; loss in lower exterior corner
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): non-consecutive; loss in lower exterior corner
- Note:
- Fol. 1 appears to be from a preface to the essay, or perhaps unrelated to the essay, on fol. 2 (written in the same hand); it contains praise to God, and covers the recto and top two lines of the verso, in large characters in well-spaced lines
The remainder of the verso bears shorthand notes in a different hand, possibly preparatory notes for a sermon, starting with Song of Solomon I 3, leading to Exodus IV 30-31.
Fol. 2 is from a historosophic essay in Judeo-Arabic, on Messianic eras, subdivided into numbered end period's (קצים a term based on Daniel XI 13 as in Saʹadia Gaon's Kitāb al-Amānāt wa'l-iʹtikādāt VII 3-5).
This folio contains the end of a discussion on the seventh such period, that of the Hasmonean era, citing Talmud Shabbat 21b (introduced as in the late Gaonic monographs: קאל אלחכ) including the baraita there on lighting the Hanukkah Lamp.
This is followed by the eighth era, the future salvation alluded to in Daniel XII 6-13; this essay may be an expanded subtopic in a work whose subject is Daniel (or at least the visions in Daniel XI-XII), a literary structure common in Saʹadia's works.
The essay is followed by another, under the heading וישם פניו (Daniel XI 17), expounding on the vision in Daniel XI 17-24, attributing it to the Moslem era. He mentions מחמד ומלך אלאסלאם.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940417583503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rr1q54n/manifest
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