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Bidding Information
Lot #    24514
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 12:06:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tanhuma
Title (Hebrew)    תנחומא הנקרא ילמדנו
Author    [Midrash]
City    Venice
Publisher    Daniel Bomberg
Publication Date    1545
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   73 [i.e. 98] ff., 270:193 mm., nice margins, usual light age staining, minor worming, stamps. A good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description
   Midrash Tanhuma or Midrash Yelammedenuva group of aggadic Midrashim which include the standard printed Tanhuma; the Tanhuma edited by Buber; Deuteronomy Rabbah; Numbers Rabbah II; Exodus Rabbah II; parts of the Pesikta Rabbati; and various other Midrashim, complete or fragmentary, published or still in manuscript. The features common to all of these are: the frequent mention of Rabbi Tanhuma; a special method of halakhic proems which serve as an introduction to aggadic homilies. All of them are homiletical Midrashim.

Most of the Tanhuma Yelammedenu Midrashim, including the published ones, are written in a mixture of mishnaic Hebrew and Galilean Aramaic. Several Greek and some Latin words are also found. Some fragmentary texts, however, are written in a purer more artificial Hebrew with hardly any Aramaic. This is no sign of early origin but the contrary is typical of the late Midrashim along with other symptoms like pseudography.

          
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Reference
Description
   CD-EPI 0146616; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Midrash
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica