Scroll Down: Classical Jewish Texts, from Parchment to Internet Gary A. Rendsburg, Laurie Chair of Jewish History, Rutgers University Shaol & Louis Pozez Memorial Lectureship Series University of Arizona, April 12, 2021

1. Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) – c. 830 documents, including c. 230 Bible manuscripts  http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ (5 major scrolls)  https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/about-the-project/the-digital-library (complete collection) 2. Masada – several biblical manuscripts (available at above link) 3. Two Early Medieval Bible Codices  Aleppo Codex (Tiberias, c. 930), now in Jerusalem: https://barhama.com/ajaxzoom/viewer/viewer.php?zoomDir=/pic/AleppoWM/&example=viewer5  St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Codex (Cairo, 1009), now in St. Petersburg (not available online) 4. Mishna  Kaufmann Manuscript A50 (Budapest) (, c. 1200) http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms50/ms50-coll1.htm  Parma Manuscript Biblioteca Palatina 3173 = De Rossi 138 (Italy, 1073) 5. Yerushalmi (Talmud of the Land of Israel)  Leiden Manuscript (Rome, 1289), Leiden Or. 4720 http://www.yerushalmionline.org/manuscripts/ 6. Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud)  Munich Manuscript (France, 1342), BSB, Cod. hebr. 95 http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0000/bsb00003409/images/ 7. Targumim (of the )  Targum Onqelos, BL Ms. Or. 2363 (Persia / Babylonia, 11th–12th century) http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2363  Targum Yerushalmi (Pseudo-Jonathan), BL MS Add. 27031 (c. 1500) http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27031  Targum Neofiti, BAV MS Neofiti, no. 1 (Rome, 1499/1504) https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Neofiti.1 8.  Commentary on the Mishna (autograph copy) (Cairo, c. 1168) https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3967/view/1/1/ (NLI, Jerusalem) (Moʿed) https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3967/view/2/1/ (NLI, Jerusalem) (Nashim) http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digitized-items-hebrew-manuscripts > MS Huntington 117 (Zeraʿim) / MS Pococke 295 (Neziqin / Qodashim)  Mishneh Torah ‘Code of Jewish Law’, Bodleian MS Huntington 80 (Cairo, c. 1180) http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/  Guide for the Perplexed (Hebrew), Copenhagen Manuscript (Barcelona, 1348) http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/293/ 9. Cairo Geniza  300,000 documents found during the 1880s – 1890s  two-thirds (c. 200,000 documents) are in Cambridge  other large collections in Oxford, New York, Manchester, Philadelphia, St. Petersburg, + c. 70 other libraries, museums, and private holdings  includes our earliest Passover Haggadah texts  https://fjms.genizah.org/ 10. Paola bat Abraham ha-Sofer, MS Oxford Can. Or. 89 (Rome, 1293)  2-volume work Pisqei HaRID = legal rulings of Rabbi Isaiah di http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digitized-items-hebrew-manuscripts > MS Can. Or. 89 11. Italian Rite “Woman’s Siddur”  J.T.S. MS 8255, gift of the scribe Abraham Farissol to his bride (Italy 1471) 12. Kennicott Bible (1476, La Coruña, Spain), now in Oxford: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digitized-items-hebrew-manuscripts > MS Kennicott 1

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