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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Yom Kippur
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egalitarian, 62nd century A.M., Star Trek, תשובה teshuvah, Avot and Imahot, Mi She’anah, crossovers, deuterocanonical works, Jews of Star Trek, 24th century C.E., United Federation of Planets, סליחות seliḥot, Starfleet, liturgy of the wandering stars
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A derivation of the popular piyyut for the Yamim Noraim, “Mi She’anu” which references the archetypal characters of the Star Trek paracosm. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Jospeh Ziegler (translation), Septuagint (translation/Greek) and Barukh ben Neriyah
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Second Temple Period
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2nd century B.C.E., early Judaism, 37th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, exile, wisdom, שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu
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The poetic portion of the deuterocanonical work, Barukh, in Greek with English translation. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
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Second Temple Period
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Jews of Alexandria, Cairo Geniza, reconstructed text, acrostic, Dead Sea Scrolls, Alphabetic Acrostic, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus
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The end of the scroll of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) reconstructed from Cairo Geniza fragments not contained within the Septuagint. . . . |
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Unknown Author(s)
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Second Temple Period, Shavuot Readings
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mytho-historical chronicles, early Judaism, deuterocanonical works, יובל Yovel Jubilee, Ethiopian Jewry, anti-predatory, parabiblical aggadah, pre-rabbinic judaism, Mäṣḥäf Ḳədus, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M.
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We are grateful to Dr. James VanderKam for preparing this critical text of the Book of Jubilees (Sefer Yubalim) in its Ge’ez translation in Ethiopic script. The book of Jubilees is an early Jewish deutero-canonical text originally written in Hebrew and composed during the Second Temple period sometime before the Maccabean struggle (164 BCE). . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Mordecai Kaplan and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
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Second Temple Period, Rosh Ḥodesh Readings
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Openers, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria, hymns of creation
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Ecclesiasticus (ben Sira) 42:21-43:31 is presented as “God the Lord of Nature” in The Sabbath Prayer Book of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (The Reconstructionist Foundation 1945), p. 376-372 in the Supplements subsection, “God in Nature.” The text of Ben Sira used here differs in places found in other manuscripts. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)
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Second Temple Period
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the Pit, captive animals, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, anti-predatory, Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic
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The story of Bel and the Dragon according to the text of Theodotion, translated into biblical Hebrew. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation), Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo and Unknown Author(s)
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Second Temple Period
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the Pit, captive animals, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, anti-predatory, חבקוק Ḥabaquq, Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic
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The story of Daniel and the dragon held captive by the neo-Babylonians found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
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Second Temple Period, Yom Kippur
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Jews of Alexandria, Cairo Geniza, Mar'eh Kohen, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus
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The poem lauding the ancestors from Chapters 44 to 50 of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) is considered by many scholars to be the original influence for the Yom Kippur Avodah service, and the paean to Shimon the Righteous bears a striking similarity to the beloved piyyut “Mar’eh Khohen.” This passage from Ben Sira, the great paean on the merit of the ancestors, takes the Hebrew text of one of the Cairo Geniza manuscripts — Bodleian MS Heb e62 — and versifies it according to the standard Septuagintal text, along with vocalization and cantillation per the standard Masoretic EMe”T system for poetic books. It could be read on Yom Kippur for the avodah service, or just studied as a fascinating piece of Jewish history. . . . |
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