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survived in the Cairo Genizah, was written in the east after undergoing
editing to bring it in line with the customs of the Babylonian Yeshivot.
This article offers an explanation for the specific number of verses read
in Seder Hakeri’ah. Seder Hakeri’ah is also compared here with another
pamphlet attributed to the Geonim which is included in Sefer Ibbur Shanim
by R’ Issachar Ibn Sussan of the sixteenth century.
A New Panegyric in the Handwriting
of Avraham ben Shlomo
Yaron Lisha
Bar-Ilan University and The Academy of the Hebrew Language
The article shows that a letter published by M. Gil is in fact a classical
poem. It was copied by Avraham ben Shlomo (11th century), the son of
Shlomo Gaon. The manuscript (ENA 2891.33–34) is torn in the middle.
The final hemistichs of the poem were mistakenly published as the opening
of the letter, and the initial hemistichs of the poem as its end. The poem is a
panegyric, possessing all the characteristics of a classical poem. For
example, it has monorhyme as well as an embellished opening.
