Outside my comfort zone The Cairo Genizah

I don't find anything on the Cairo Genizah in Logos. I assume this is because I don't know the right alternative name for the topic. Can you help?

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Roy

Does this help any? I'm just doing a search-cut-paste. I do not know any thing outside of that.

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DAMASCUS RULE (CD). The “Damascus Rule (CD)” document was first discovered in the genizah (storeroom) of the Qara’ite synagogue in Old Cairo by S. Schechter, who brought it to the University Library, Cambridge, where it remains. First published as “Fragments of a Zadokite Work” (Schechter 1910) because of its references to “sons of Zadok” (4.1, 3) and “Zadok” (5.5)—and hence often referred to as the Damascus Document and officially denoted by the siglum CD (= Cairo: Damascus) on account of its allusions to Exile and covenant-making in the “land of Damascus” (6.5, 19; 7.19; 19.34; 20.12). CD consists of two incomplete mss, designated A and B, and dating respectively from about the 10th and 12th centuries c.e. A contains eight sheets, each with two columns; and B a single sheet with two columns. Schechter numbered the A columns 1–16 and the B columns 19–20—rather confusingly, for 19 contains a slightly different version of 8, while 20 follows 19 but has no counterpart in the A ms. There are also fragments of this work from Qumran Caves 4, 5, and 6 (4QDa–g, 5QD and 6QD).

Footnote CD

Cairo (Genizah), Damascus Document [= S. Schechter, Documents of Jewish Sectaries, vol. 1, Fragments of a Zadokite Work, Cambridge, 1910. Repr. New York, 1970]

Philip R. Davies, “Damascus Rule (CD),” ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 8.

All kinds of hits... I'll look a bit more between job duties...[;)]

Roy

a bit more ...

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29. What is the Damascus Document? The ancient title of this document is unknown. Commonly called “The Damascus Document” (CD [=Cairo Damascus]), it is sometimes referred to as the “Zadokite Documents.” It is represented by two texts discovered in the genizah of the Ezra Synagogue of Old Cairo in 1896 by Solomon Schechter. He published them as the first part of Documents of Jewish Sectaries (2 vols.; Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1910; repr. with a prolegomenon by J. A. Fitzmyer, New York: Ktav, 1970). Volume 1 of this publication contains “Fragments of a Zadokite Work, Edited from Hebrew Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah Collection now in the Possession of the University Library, Cambridge.” (The second volume contains “Fragments of the Book of the Commandments by Anan,” i.e. Anan ben David, the founder of Qaraite Judaism in early medieval times.)

The text of CD published by Schechter is double: Text A, a copy dated to the 10th century a.d., containing 16 cols. (actually written on both sides of eight parchment leaves [text Al containing cols. 1–8, and text A2, cols. 9–16]); and Text B, a copy dated to the twelfth century a.d., containing two cols., numbered 19 and 20 (actually written on two sides of one long parchment leaf). Column 19:1ff. agrees somewhat with Al, 7:5ff., but from 19:33–20:34 Text B has no parallel in Text A; this is a supplementary exhortation.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York; Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1992), 28–29.

Roy

Now this is interesting...

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The Amidah from the Cairo Genizah And the oldest version that we have comes from the collection from the Cairo Genizah. A genizah is a storeroom for discarding any documents which contain God’s name, because you can’t throw away something or burn something which has God’s name on it. So these documents were buried ideally in a coffin with full burial service, because then you are not destroying them, you’re giving them back to the earth and then they can decay by themselves and that’s giving them back to God.

David Instone-Brewer, NT390 Jesus as Rabbi: The Jewish Context of the Life of Jesus, Logos Mobile Education (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201192#Comment_1201192

I'm looking for books and/or manuscripts more than reference books -- but you reminded me that checking reference books will lead me to titles.

Roy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201195#Comment_1201195

I'm looking for books and/or manuscripts more than reference books

Something along these lines?

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1.2. The Manuscripts of the Damascus Document Text Number Paleographical Date 4Q266 100–50 BCE 4Q267 late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE 4Q268 mid-first century CE 4Q269 late 1st century BCE 4Q270 1–50 CE 4Q271 50–25 BCE 4Q272 late 1st century BCE 4Q273 late 1st century BCE 5Q12 50–1 BCE 6Q15 1st century CE Cairo Genizah MS-A 10th century CE Cairo Genizah MS-B 12th century CE

Thomas R. Blanton IV, Constructing a New Covenant: Discursive Strategies in the Damascus Document and Second Corinthians, ed. Jörg Frey, vol. 233, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2007), 21.

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Footnote 8

This list is indebted to the succinct presentation of the manuscript fragments in Hempel, The Damascus Texts, 19–25.

Roy

I assume this is because I don't know the right alternative name for the topic. Can you help?

From every thing I have seen so far it looks like (and I am guessing here) that "Damascus Document" may be the alternate name you want?

EDIT: Then again not. further reading tells me that the Damascus Doc was just one of many found in the Cairo Genizah. I'll try try to not waste your time here.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201199#Comment_1201199

No, that is helpful ... partial is better than none ...it brings up results on Logos.com which may lead somewhere.

DMB

I don't find anything on the Cairo Genizah in Logos. I assume this is because I don't know the right alternative name for the topic. Can you help?

As your comment below, the mss's show up where significant, in monographs (eg discussing DSS, etc). The Damascus one is interesting, since it predicted the Qumran group, and was thought to have been an earlier DSS retrieval by bedouin in the 1800s.

Roy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201204#Comment_1201204

Might be of interest...

https://www.logos.com/product/15479/the-damascus-covenant-an-interpretation-of-the-damascus-document

https://www.logos.com/product/162851/the-damascus-covenant-an-interpretation-of-the-damascus-document (Translation)

https://www.logos.com/product/180745/fragments-of-a-zadokite-work-translation

https://www.logos.com/product/180744/fragments-of-a-zadokite-work-notes

Roy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201207#Comment_1201207

This also might be of interest...

https://www.logos.com/product/7123/the-damascus-texts