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unknown content in the text itself. Through a detailed comparison with the
parallel text in Chronicles, Yefet explains that the changes Josiah
introduced into the practice of worship were not related to the discovery of
the scroll, but rather to his own aspirations for embracing and strengthening
the cult.

Yefet’s innovative approach to biblical exegesis is demonstrated in
three major questions that he addresses in his commentary on this passage:
what was the identity of the scroll that was found in the temple, why did
Josiah’s delegation approach Hulda the prophetess and not other prophets,
and what was the significance and meaning of the prophecy of Josiah’s
death.

Remains of Halakhic Responsa in the
Cairo Geniza

Abraham David

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A review of a comprehensive research of Shmuel Glick, Seride Teshuvot,
which was recently recently published by The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America and the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at
Cambridge University Library. This is a unique research on the Genizah
fragments of Halakhic Responsa with a synoptic edition of a facsimile of
each one with its annotated transcription of the original language: Hebrew
or Judeo-Arabic (with Hebrew translation). This publication contains four
volumes in two series:

I. An English edition from the Mosseri collection from the Gaonic
period as well as from the Middle Ages (Rishonim). Leiden-Boston, Brill,
2012.