This article presents for the first time fragments of original text of Rabbi
Isaac Ibn Ghiyyatʼs commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, known until
now from other Rabbisʼ quotations. The fragments are from the Pesachim
.and Bava Metzia Tractates
This original text is important for a number of reasons: first, it quotes
many of Ibn Ghiyyatʼs antecedents and is, at times, their sole source; second,
Ibn Ghiyyat quotes segments of the Talmud and addresses the question of
multiple versions, and finally, this is the first time the original text of the
.commentary is being published

The “Hashem Qanai” (Prov. 8:22) sequences are among the most
conspicuous poems for Pentecost. They are usually comprised of 22
alphabetical long sections where God, as the father, and the Torah, as his
daughter, are arguing about a suitable bridegroom for her. She objects even
to the great forefathers proposed to her by God before finally agreeing to the
.proposition to be given to Moses
We have in our possession about ten such parallel compositions by
Palestinian, Ashkenazi and French poets. In the following article a critical
edition of an unknown Palestinian composition from this genre is published
for the first time. The text is based on an old MS dispersed in three distant
Genizah fragments. Questions of context and contexture are dealt with,
and a comparable connection with the mystical Shiʼur Qomah treatise is
.proposed

This article contains a new edition of the qedushta Agudei li-shmakh
be-masot for Semini Atzeret by Yannai. As well as integrating all of the
manuscript data that have been published piecemeal over the decades, the
present edition makes use of Genizah fragments that were not available to
previous editors. Its major contribution to the study of the composition is
the reconstruction of the original silluq, which is given here for the first
time in its pristine form. The silluq employs a “double” structure, attested
elsewhere in the Yannai corpus: the first part consists of a patter poem
(rahit), while the second is composed in a freer form which employs mostly
.parallelism and rhyme as devices for structuring the strophes

Published in this paper for the first time are passages taken from the
commentaries of two of the most important Karaite biblical interpreters of
the 10th and 11th centuries, Yafeth ben Eli and Yeshua ben Yehuda, on the
issue of “the slandered bride” (Deut. 22:13-21).The study quotes the Judeo
Arabic sources, and adds an annotated translation. It includes a detailed
,discussion of the commentaries of the Sages and Gaonim on this issue
allowing for a comparative analysis with the early Karaite interpreters. The
discussion can help uncover the origins of early Karaite law, and how it
.crystallized during its early development