Late Antique Historiography

The last scroll of fasting

Title(s):
  • The last scroll of fasting
  • מגילת הצומות
    (mgīllāt haṣṣōmōt, The Scroll of fasts)
  • מגילת תענית בתרא
    (mgīllāt ta‘anīt batrā, The last Scroll of the fast)
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Unknown
Language:
Hebrew
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Calendar
Remarks:
The list has three main redactions: Palestinian, Babylonian and Italian. The Palestinian and Babylonian ones are late adaptation of a list composed most probably in the Amoraic period (third to sixth century). The manuscript Vat. Ebr. 171 was used both by Neubauer and Elizur for their editions. A list of manuscripts is available in Elizur (2007: 115-145).
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Bibliography:
  • E. Ben-Eliyahu, Y. Cohn, F. Millar (2012) Handbook of Jewish literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE. Oxford: 241-242.
  • E. Ben-Eliyahu, Y. Cohn, F. Millar (2012) Handbook of Jewish literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE. Oxford: 241-242.
  • E. Ben-Eliyahu, Y. Cohn, F. Millar (2012) Handbook of Jewish literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE. Oxford: 241-242.
  • Z. Safra (2006) 'Appendix: The scroll of Antiochos and the Scroll of Fasts'. In: Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Volume Two: The literature of the Jewish people in the period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, ed. S. Safrai. Assen: 238-241, esp. 240-241.