RT Article
T1 Geonic Talmud Commentaries in Transition: A Hand-list by Joseph Rosh ha-Seder
JF Zutot
VO 14
IS 1
SP 19
OP 31
A1 Dubovick, Yosaif Mordechai
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1566787092
AB Joseph Rosh ha-Seder was a renowned copyist and Talmud scholar in 12th century Egypt. His personal hand-lists of quotations and notes, found in the Cairo Genizah, serve to reconstruct the outline of many of his literary projects. This article presents an analysis of one such fragment, containing several nonconsecutive Talmud commentaries which may be attributed to the geonic academies in Baghdad. Among the questions raised to guide future research are: To what end did these commentaries serve the compiler? What can be learned from the language of the commentaries (Judeo-Arabic as opposed to Hebrew)? What can this fragment tell us about the proliferation of geonic commentaries over the course of two centuries? What can this fragment tell us of Joseph’s own literary capabilities and plans?
K1 Talmud commentaries : geonic commentaries : Cairo Genizah : Joseph Rosh ha-Seder : Jewish history : medieval Jewish literature : rabbinic literature
DO 10.1163/18750214-12141067