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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Susan Weingarten (translation), Moshe Shmi'el Dascola and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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women, Judith, anti-predatory, dairy foods, soporifics, resistance, Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, 52nd century A.M., derivative work
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This is a faithful transcription of the text of the medieval Megillat Yehudith (the Scroll of Judith), not to be confused with the deutero-canonical Book of Judith, authored in Antiquity. We have further set this text side-by-side with the English translation made by Susan Weingarten, and vocalized and cantillated the Hebrew so that it may be chanted. . . . |
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Anat Hochberg (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, eating animals, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
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This digital edition of Midrash Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah was transcribed from the print edition published in Otzar Hamidrashim (I. D. Eisenstein, New York: Eisenstein Press, 5675/1915, p.189-190). With much gratitude to Anat Hochberg, this is the first translation of this midrash into English. . . . |
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Aliza Arzt, Isabel Bard (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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Angels, Early Middle Ages, cosmological, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, Seleucid Greek Occupation, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
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The following is the Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, one of a collection of three midrashim and two megillot containing the details of the story of Ḥanukkah in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Those already familiar with these other works will quickly recognize portions or summaries of them here albeit with precious additional information added not found anywhere else. . . . |
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Yosef ben Shlomo of Carcassonne, Girls in Trouble and Dr. Sara Reguer (translation)
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Ḥanukkah, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, predation, Judith, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages
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“Odecha ki anafta bi (I give thanks to you although you were angry with me) was composed by Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne, who is dated to the first half of the eleventh century. This elegant and abstruse poem tells an epic tale of the Jews’ resistance to the decrees of Antiochus IV and includes accounts of both the Hasmonean bride and Judith. It bears a considerable resemblance to texts 4 and 12 of the Hanukkah midrashim[ref]See Grintz, Sefer Yehudit, pp. 205, 207–08[/ref] and this is evidence for the circulation of the joint Hasmonean daughter-Judith tales in the eleventh century, even if the surviving manuscripts of these stories are from a later date.” (Deborah Levine Gera, “The Jewish Textual Traditions” in The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines (2010).) . . . |
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