New publication from The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Yerushalmi Neziqin, edited from the Escorial Manuscript, with an introduction by E.S. Rosenthal; introduction and commentary by S. Lieberman. Now includes fragments from the Italian Genizah, with introductions by David Rosenthal. Third printing Jerusalem 2008 (first printing Jerusalem 1983). vi + 275 + 39 pp. Cloth. $ 58 / 37 / NIS 200. ISBN 978-965-208-176-6. In Hebrew. With the cooperation of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and the American Academy for Jewish Research.
An almost complete copy of Seder Neziqin from the Jerusalem (Yerushalmi) Talmud was copied in a minute script in the upper margins of a Hebrew codex of Bavli Neziqin, preserved in the Escorial Library in Spain. The surprising discovery of this text, which remained unnoticed until a quarter century ago, brought to light another rare copy of a significant part of the Yerushalmi, including tractates Bava Qama, Bava Mezia and Bava Batra, and this volume, first published in 1983 and long out of print, makes it available to researchers and scholars. The Escorial MS of the Yerushalmi represents a textual and linguistic tradition similar to that found in one of the most ancient and accurate Genizah manuscripts and is different from and superior to the Leiden MS from which the existing editions were printed. Searches in European archives have uncovered thousands of leaves and fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts that were in secondary use as bindings or wrappings for archival records. Several ancient leaves from Yerushalmi Neziqin were found in archives in Bologna and Savona in Italy. In this new printing, the texts from the so-called "Italian Genizah" are edited together with introductions in which their lineage and textual and linguistic traditions are described. The Savona fragments derive from the same Oriental-Sephardic tradition preserved in the Escorial MS and Genizah fragments, while the Bologna fragments belong to the Western-Italian tradition found in the Leiden MS. The book is available from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; web: www.academy.ac.il. Benjamin Richler Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
