Indexes
Index of Sources
Manuscripts
The index of manuscripts does not include Cairo Genizah fragments that are edited in this volume; these fragments are listed with their shelf-marks and sigla in Table 3 above (pp. XX–XXI).
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Or. Oct. 352 (calendar treatise)
510n98
Cambridge University Library
Mosseri II.181 (letter)
256n129
T-S 8G7.1 (exilarch’s letter of 835/6)
10n, 57n3, 529n10
T-S 10G5.7 (book list)
97
T-S 10K2 (Saadya, For two months they desecrate the Sabbath)
98n39
T-S 10K7.1 (Scroll of Evyatar)
24n53–4
T-S 12.328 (letter)
256n126
T-S 12.729 (Scroll of Evyatar)
24n53
T-S 12.730 (traveller’s narrative)
96n28
T-S 13F2 (responsum)
232n61
T-S 13J11.4 (letter)
210
T-S A42.1 (liturgy)
329n18
T-S A42.2 (Haftarot lectionary)
329n15
T-S Ar. 29.41 (calendrical)
507n95
T-S Ar.50.150 (Saadya, For two months …)
98n39
T-S Ar.53.22 (Saadya, For two months …)
98n39
T-S E3.75 (Avot)
329n18
T-S H3.59 (Commandments)
96n28
T-S K2.15 (calendrical)
507n95
T-S NS 91.22–3 (Saadya, For two months …)
98n39
T-S NS 98.29 (calendar)
25n56
T-S NS 312.82 (list of Geonim)
212–213
Istanbul, Beyazit State Library
Beyazıt 4667 (al-Biruni, Chronology)
82n62
Kiev, Vernadsky Library
OPI no. 286 (Joshua b. Allan)
60nn, 363n148, 486n42
Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek
Or. 1099N (Warner 73N) (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ)
430
Or. 4720 (Palestinian Talmud)
420n6
London, British Library
Add. 7197 (Elias of Nisibis)
82n60, 452–460
Add. 27201 (Maḥzor Vitry)
510n98
Harley 5508 (bRosh ha-Shanah)
420n6
Or. 5549.1 (list of Geonim)
232n61
Or. 10588.5 (calendrical)
70n38
Manchester, John Rylands University Library
Gaster Genizah 2 (Bible)
329
Moscow, Russian State Library
Guenzburg 365 (calendrical)
98n37
New York, Jewish Theological Seminary
3847/8 (Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer)
60n16
ENA 2687.2 (book list)
83n68, 97
ENA 4010.47 (letter)
256n129
ENA 4053.1 (Qaddish)
148n155, 232n61
ENA NS 10.25 (calendrical)
507
Oxford, Bodleian Library
Heb. c 16.50 (unidentified)
93n17, 96n28
Opp. 317 (Jacob b. Samson)
82n61, 84n70, 98n37, 510n98
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Hébreu 1408 (calendar treatise)
84n70
Philadelphia, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Halper 375 (Qaraite formulary)
329n17
Halper 443 (Sefer ha-Galuy)
90, 96n27
Private collection
ex-Sassoon 535 (Maḥzor Vitry)
510n100
St Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts
A221 (calendrical)
84n70
St Petersburg, Russian National Library
Evr. I 736 (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ)
430
Evr. II A 40 (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ)
430
Evr. II A 159/15 (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ)
430
Evr. IV 68 (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ)
430
Evr.-Arab. I 3069 (Sefer ha-Galuy)
89–91, 96n27
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
Hébreu 4038 (RHayye)
440–451, 484n26
Vatican
Ebr. 126 (Rabbenu Ḥananel)
422n15
Ebr. 299 (calendrical)
82n61, 510n100
Texts
Only significant references are listed.
Mishnah
mRosh ha-Shanah 2:9
232n60
Palestinian Talmud
pRosh ha-Shanah 2:6, 58b
418, 422–425
Babylonian Talmud
bBetsah 4b
366–367
bRosh ha-Shanah 20b
103, 158–159, 418, 422–423, 448–449
bRosh ha-Shanah 21a
476
bRosh ha-Shanah 25a
403, 406–409
bSanhedrin 5a
230–231
bSanhedrin 11b
364–365
bSanhedrin 37a
224n33
Other Rabbinic Sources
Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer, 8
230–231
Calendar Controversy Sources
This section includes texts and passages from the corpus of sources edited in this volume, wherever they are quoted or discussed in other parts of the volume. It does not include the text editions themselves, for which see the Table of Contents and Table 3.
1PalMan 30–31
73
BCC 3:15–4:1
83n65
BCC 5:1–2
83n66
BCC 21:5–22:1
84n71
BCC 28:7–9
78
BCC 30:14
94
BCC 30:16–21
83n65
L1BM 15:9–16:1
84n71
LMisc 4r:6–9
73–4n47, 78n
LMisc 5r:21–5v:12
11–13
LMisc 5v:20–22
85n73
LMisc 6r:17–6v:1
72–3
LMisc 6v:5–11
78, 85n73
LSaad 2v:3–6
95
LSaad 8r:6–8
19n36
General Index
Abbasid (‘secular’) authorities
21n47, 32, 118–119nn, 138n110, 376n216
see also Amīr
Abraham bar Ḥayya
25–6, 77, 99, 440–442, 484n26, 486nn, 532
Abramson, S.
212–213
‘Adar and Adar’
362–365
Adler, E.
30–2, 36, 51
Aharon b. Amram
378–379
Amīr
136n95, 196n230
Ananites
18, 22n, 32n19, 334–335, 376–385
Babylonian leadership
122–123, 284–285, 340–341
factions
17–18, 20–1, 23
Battānī, al-
71–2
ben Meir
Babylonian Talmud, use of
223n30, 231–233
calendar announcement
13–15, 51, 120–121nn
calendar knowledge
67–8
‘excommunicated’
32, 124n38, 432–433
head of Council
15–16, 118–119, 124–125
head of Sanhedrin
212, 226n39, 229
Letters
209–278, 334–335, 374–385
name
93n17, 125n39, 143n134, 212–214, 244–245n121, 296–297, 345n
negative portrayal
32, 37–8, 101–102
polemic against Saadya
18–20, 244–245, 334, 376–383
visit to Babylonia
17–18, 211, 382–383
Book of the Calendar Controversy
21, 51–2, 87–206, 285, 296–297, 523–524
authorship
92–9
dissemination
101n, 285
manuscripts
103–109, 524–526
‘Memorandum’
91–2, 94–5
readership
108–109, 113
structure
99–103
textual tradition
109–110
title
89–92
see also vocalization and cantillation
Bornstein, H.Y.
32–7, 68–72, 74, 105, 254–255, 286–287, 326–327, 366n162, 510–511, 523
Brody, R.
41–2, 93n22
calendar, Jewish (rabbinic)
58–61
19-year cycle
60, 364–367, 435–436, 484n26
annual announcements
9–11, 13–14
Babylonian independence
10–13, 79, 333, 364–369
common people’s
342–345
institution, finalisation
12, 43, 57–8, 67n30, 535–536
Mishnaic
9–10, 420
Palestinian authority
9–10, 79, 211, 362–365, 378–379, 416–425, 525
ShWḤ KHZ ḤDW
64–5, 79–80, 388–391
see also eras, Four Gates, molad, molad zaqen, tequfot
calendar manuals, Palestinian
24, 73, 478–522
‘calendar’, word for
97n34, 123n32, 366–367
cantillation see vocalization
Christians
376n214, 437, 452–460
codicology and manuscripts
35–6, 46–9, 54, 168–175, 526
controversy of 921/2
aftermath
24–6, 34–5, 526–527
‘Babylonian victory’
20–23, 25, 38–9, 286, 525–526
mixed allegiances
17, 330, 466–475
narrative of events
13–23, 100–103
polemical accusations
101–102, 327n8, 330–331, 388, 533n22
political motives
15–18, 34, 534
recurrences
23, 67, 444–446
‘schism’
18–19, 31, 334–335, 380–381, 384–385, 531–534
science, lack of
6–7, 56, 81, 525
David ben Zakkai
21–3, 94, 149, 229, 376–377
Day of Atonement
139, 289, 382–383, 467, 476–477
Derekh Erets Zuta
416–418
Dilāṣ
14, 28, 230n51, 376–377
Drory, R.
111
Easter
454–460, 535
Elias of Nisibis
22, 27, 452–460
epistolary practices
209–210, 256nn, 289–290
Epstein, A.
31, 67–8
eras
Creation
69–70, 330n, 462, 486n42
Destruction
120n17, 240–241, 328–330, 386, 392–393
Hijrah
453–456
Seleucid
327–328, 330n, 333, 368–369, 374–375, 453–456
Esther, book of
111–112, 122nn, 132nn
Evyatar, Scroll
24–5, 233n64
excommunication
228–229n44, 377n220, 384n260
see also ben Meir
exilarch
90n6, 134–135, 232n61
see also Babylonian leadership; Book of the Calendar Controversy, authorship; David ben Zakkai
Exilarch’s letter of 835/6
10, 57, 529, 532
fascicle
173–175
Fleischer, E.
37–8, 54, 161
Four Gates
17, 79–86
of ben Meir
128–131, 156–159, 234–241, 248–249
of Nisan
70–1, 446, 509–511, 519n139
polemics against
331–332, 356–363, 400–409, 418–425
Friedberg Genizah Project
44, 49
Friedländer, M.
254, 262n184
Gamaliel, Rabban
232–233, 407n33
Gil, M.
19n34, 20n40, 41n39, 50, 212–214, 287, 457n81
Guillaume, A.
36–7, 322
Ḥananel, Rabbenu
158, 422n15
Harkavy, A.
28–30, 45, 89–93, 254, 269–271
Hayye Gaon
68, 70–71, 77, 440–451, 484n26, 511
ḥazzan
221n25, 228–229n44
‘head of the academy’, Palestinian
214n, 332, 363–373
see also ben Meir
Hebrew language
527–528
Hirschfeld, H.
31–2
hours
62, 147n151
ʿibbur see ‘calendar’, word for; intercalation
intercalation
59–60, 362–365, 422–425
Jacob bar Samson
25–6, 98, 510
Jaffe, Z.H.
41, 71, 75, 77–9
Jeroboam
120–121n14, 232n62, 350n86, 382–383
Joshua ben Allan
60nn, 363n148, 486n42
Judeo-Arabic orthography
411, 437n22, 491–492, 499
juzʾ see fascicle
kallah
10–11, 150n165
Khuwārizmī, Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-
57–8, 82n61, 363n148, 437n21
Langermann, T.
12n11
Lasker, A.A. and D.J.
69n37, 76–7
Lévi, I.
30–1, 45, 336–337
Loewinger, Y.
71
Maghreb
413–415, 467, 476
Maḥzor Vitry
25–6, 510
Malter, H.
39–41, 89–90, 95n25, 97, 335
Mann, J.
322–323, 326–327, 440–444
Manuscripts see codicology
Memorandum
see Book of the Calendar Controversy
Midrash Sekhel Tov
510
Mishnah
see Talmud
molad
59, 61–3, 412–415, 418–425, 434–436
molad zaqen (midday postponement)
59, 66n28, 75, 77–8, 84–5
641–642 parts rule
65–79
Mūsā, Rabbi
382–383
Muslims
22, 57, 286, 376n214, 437
Nadīm, ibn al-
98
Naharwani, Yose al-
62n24, 82nn
Neubauer, A.
28–30, 254, 281
new moon sighting
22, 286–288, 400–409, 418–425, 467, 529–530
orality
82–4, 112–113
see also vocalization and cantillation
palaeography see codicology and manuscripts
Passover see Day of Atonement
Pinsker, S.
27
Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer
58, 60n16, 230–231n55, 363n147
Poznański, S.
28–9, 33, 431–432
Ptolemy, Almagest
12, 61, 62n22, 70–1
Qaraites
98–9, 419–420, 429–433, 436–437, 466–475
in the controversy of 921/2
22, 126–127n48, 286, 529–531
Qirqisānī, Jacob
476–477, 530
Rabbenu Tam
98
Rashi
98
rotulus
386–387, 400–401
Rustow, M.
ix, 23n51, 39n36, 43n1, 530n12, 532n18
Saadya
aluf
14, 94, 374–375
calendar works
97–9
early career
14, 29, 306–307, 315n143, 334, 376–377, 442–444
Letters
14–15, 19, 49–50, 279–319, 332–333
role in controversy
14n24, 18–20, 95, 279, 296–297, 300–301n82, 431–432, 463, 524–525
Sefer ha-Galuy
28, 89–91, 95–6, 111–113
see also ben Meir; Book of the Calendar Controversy, authorship; Brody, R.; Malter, H.
Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ
27, 29, 124n38, 233n64, 429–433
Sar-Shalom, R.
12nn, 41, 69n37, 76
Schechter, S.
30–2, 50–2, 281–282
Sefer ha-Moʿadim see Book of the Calendar Controversy
Sherira Gaon, Epistle
18n, 20–1, 442, 445–446
Tabernacles
9, 11, 15, 121n18
Talmud
137, 158–159, 406–409, 417–425, 525
see also ben Meir
tequfot
59n11, 443, 507–508, 518–521
text edition, critical and diplomatic
xvi–xviii, 52–4, 115–116
translation
xix, 54–5
Vidro, N.
ix, 46n6
vocalization and cantillation
54, 95–7, 108–114, 161, 163n21, 190
Babylonian and Tiberian
175–176, 280
cantillation effects
134n83, 163nn24–5, 196n226
vocalized numbers
xx, 175–176, 180nn, 183–184nn, 193n217
Vollandt, R.
ix, 44
Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd
455–458