I believe the cataloging powers the be are moving in the direction of avoiding 
“special” rules when general ones will work.  I would argue that except for 
Humash from a traditional (i.e. Orthodox/Hareidi) perspective, there are no 
“sacred” works in the Jewish tradition, but only works with ascribed human 
authors, or unknown human authors, or compilations compiled by humans, all of 
which could easily be treated by the general rules governing works created 
prior to a certain date.  They probably can abolish the concept of “sacred 
works” with no one noticing a radical change.

The only “exception” a code needs would probably be for “Bible” since there is 
no such work, never was such a work, and it is at most a compilation of 
compilations, and even then a special rule is needed only to allow headings in 
which various books are treated as parts.

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
This is not an official communication from my employer


From: Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces+akup=loc....@lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of 
Robert M. TALBOTT via Heb-naco
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Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] Sacred work

Discussing it during the summer session is a good idea.  I also suggest the 
creation of a working list of sacred works that we can all agree upon, though I 
realize this may be problematic.

B


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:58 AM Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco 
<heb-naco@lists.osu.edu<mailto:heb-naco@lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
I think this is a great question, and probably the fruit of applying an 
anglocentric category to a body of literature that doesn't match. We should 
consider if anything we call sifre kodesh is actually a sacred text in the 
spirit of the LC category.

That said, even inside of the sphere of sifre kodesh, I think that the Zohar is 
major, called Zohar ha-kadosh, which is a qualificative we don't find applied 
to many other rabbinic works. This brings me to the question: what else is 
Sacred Texts in our cannon? Other than the Tanakh, should we include the Talmud 
(Mishnah, Tosefta?)? I wouldn't include the midrash as a number of rishonim, 
like Duran, consider it to be holy, yet "not to be taken literally." Yet, the 
Zohar is midrashic in nature. It's all a conundrum. If people are interested, 
perhaps we can talk more about that in our RAS Cataloging Summer meeting, since 
the Winter's agenda is already quite full.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:47 PM Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco 
<heb-naco@lists.osu.edu<mailto:heb-naco@lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

I have a question: for purposes of correct application of LC Subject Heading 
Manual and RDA, is the Zohar considered a Sacred work.

Thanks , Heidi


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