Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana Aḥarina

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36712-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Hebrew, Band 58, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana ’Aharina offers a critical edition of an important Talmud manuscript of tractate Temurah discovered in the library of New York University. Addressing the unique Lishana ’Aharina (“alternative version”) phenomenon present in this tractate, the present volume suggests a new approach for understanding the editing and transmission of tractate Temurah. This volume also includes a thorough discussion of the conservation and treatment of the manuscript fragments, a codicological and paleographical analysis of the fragments, and a synopsis of the entire first chapter of this tractate. The present work is relevant for study of the redaction and transmission of tractate Temurah and the Babylonian Talmud, as well as for the study of Hebrew binding fragments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstone, Matthew S

Schiffman, Lawrence H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Plates

Introduction

Lishana ’Aharina

Early Views on Lishana ’Aharina

Jacob Nachum Halevy Epstein

Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal

Additional Discussions of Lishana ’Aharina

New Observations from a Reexamination of the Evidence

Towards a New Theory of Tractate Temurah

Lishana ’Aharina: The Evidence of Medieval Sources

Conclusions

The Conservation of Six Talmudic Manuscript Fragments from the Bindings of Three Early 17th Century Choral Books

Anne Hillam, Laura McCann, and Marvin J. Taylor

Figures 1–6

A Codicological and Paleographical Analysis of the Sabbateni Hebrew Binding Fragments — Bavli Temurah Chapter 1

Edna Engel

A Proposed Model of the Original Manuscript’s Layout

Codicological and Scribal Graphic Features

Scribal Graphic Features (Figure 17)

Script

Conclusions

Figures 7–25

Edition of the Manuscript with Critical Notes

Synopsis of the lishana ’aharina on Temurah 6a

Synopses of NYU Manuscript of BT Temurah, Chapter 1

Synopsis 1: Frag. 1 Recto, Col. 1 [Septimus Rear Board Front 007; Plates 1 & 2] Temurah 3b

Synopsis 2: Frag. 1 Recto, Col. 2 [Septimus Rear Board Front 007; Plates 1 & 2] Temurah 3b

Synopsis 3: Frag. 1 Verso, Col. 1 [Septimus Rear Board Reverse 008; Plates 3 & 4] Temurah 4a

Synopsis 4: Frag. 1 Verso, Col. 2 [Septimus Rear Board Reverse 008; Plates 3 & 4] Temurah 4b

Synopsis 5: Frag. 2 Verso, Col. 1 [Septimus Front Board Reverse 006; Plates 7 & 8] Temurah 5a

Synopsis 6: Frag. 2 Verso, Col. 2 [Septimus Front Board Reverse 006; Plates 7 & 8] Temurah 5a

Synopsis 7: Frag. 2 Recto, Col. 1 [Septimus Front Board Front 005; Plates 5 & 6] Temurah 5b

Synopsis 8: Frag. 2 Recto, Col. 2 [Septimus Front Board Front 005; Plates 5 & 6] Temurah 5b

Synopsis 9: Frag. 3 Recto, Col. 1 [Tenor Front Board Front 009; Plates 9, 10, & 25] Temurah 5b

Synopsis 10: Frag. 3 Recto, Col. 2 [Tenor Front Board Front 009; Plates 9 & 10] Temurah 6a

Synopsis 11: Frag. 3 Verso, Col. 1 [Tenor Front Board Reverse 010; Plates 11 & 12] Temurah 6b–6a

Synopsis 12: Frag. 3 Verso, Col. 2 [Tenor Front Board Reverse 010; Plates 11, 12, & 26] Temurah 6b

Synopsis 13: Frag. 4 Recto, Col. 1 [Tenor Rear Board Front 011; Plates 13 & 14] Temurah 9b

Synopsis 14: Frag. 5 Recto, Col. 1 [Cantus Rear Board Front 003; Plates 17 & 18] Temurah 9b

Synopsis 15: Frag. 4 Recto, Col. 2 [Tenor Rear Board Front 011; Plates 13 & 14] Temurah 9b–10a

Synopsis 16: Frag. 5 Recto, Col. 2 [Cantus Rear Board Front 003; Plates 17 & 18] Temurah 10a

Synopsis 17: Frag. 4 Verso, Col. 1 [Tenor Rear Board Reverse 012; Plates 15 & 16] Temurah 10a–10b

Synopsis 18: Frag. 5 Verso, Col. 1 [Cantus Rear Board Reverse 004; Plates 19 & 20] Temurah 10b

Synopsis 19: Frag. 4 Verso, Col. 2 [Tenor Rear Board Reverse 012; Plates 15 & 16] Temurah 10b

Synopsis 20: Frag. 5 Verso, Col. 2 [Cantus Rear Board Reverse 004; Plates 19 & 20] Temurah 10b

Synopsis 21: Frag. 6 Verso, Col. 1 [Cantus Front Board Reverse 002; Plates 23 & 24] Temurah 12b–13a

Synopsis 22: Frag. 6 Verso, Col. 2 [Cantus Front Board Reverse 002; Plates 23 & 24] Temurah 13a

Synopsis 23: Frag. 6 Recto, Col. 1 [Cantus Front Board Front 001; Plates 21 & 22] Temurah 13b

Synopsis 24: Frag. 6 Recto, Col. 2 [Cantus Front Board Front 001; Plates 21 & 22] Temurah 13b

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Goldstone, Ph.D. (2017), published in Journal of Biblical Literature, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Novum Testamentum, and Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and authored The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation (forthcoming).

Lawrence H. Schiffman is Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and director of the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies at New York University. He has published numerous books on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Judaism in late antiquity.