A Rabbinic Anthology on a Scroll: Preliminary Remarks on a Cairo Genizah Fragment, British Library Or. 5558A.6

This paper offers a transcription, and discusses material and textual aspects of a Hebrew fragment from the Cairo Genizah, kept today in the British Library under the shelfmark MS Or 5558A.6. This fragment comes from an anthology of Rabbinic texts, including a version of the Derekh Erets, a concise...

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Subtitles:From Cairo to Amsterdam. Hebrew Scrolls from the 11th to the 18th Centuries (eds. Emma Abate and Justine Isserles)
Main Author: Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Ed. Morcelliana 2021
In: Henoch
Year: 2021, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 10-30
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Genizah / Role / Talmûd bavlî
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Cairo Genizah
B Non-Biblical Scrolls
B Codicology
B Derekh Erets
B Minor TalmudicTractates
B Palaeography
B Rabbinic Anthologies
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Summary:This paper offers a transcription, and discusses material and textual aspects of a Hebrew fragment from the Cairo Genizah, kept today in the British Library under the shelfmark MS Or 5558A.6. This fragment comes from an anthology of Rabbinic texts, including a version of the Derekh Erets, a concise essay on simple rules of religious, ethical, social and sexual etiquette which was later included into the corpus of the Babylonian Talmud, as one of its ‘minor tractates’. This fragment is of a special interest for book historians for two reasons: it conveys variant versions of the Derekh Erets and other rabbinic text and it stems from a book in the shape of a horizontal scroll.
ISSN:0393-6805
Contains:Enthalten in: Henoch