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DS ID:

DS25917

Shelfmark:

Halper 431

Title:

Essay on Psalms 8:1-3

Commentary on Psalms

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

consecutive; partly obliterated

Physical Description:

Extent: 4 fols. : consecutive; partly obliterated

Note:

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.
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).
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.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).

Keyword:

Commentaries

Bible. Psalms

Early works

Bible

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942. Tafsir Sefer Tehilim

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gh9bt76/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania