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List of the Songs of Ascents (Pss 120-134) in the Cairo Genizah: Their Form and Its Implications

Chapter of: Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World(pp. 215–246)

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TitleList of the Songs of Ascents (Pss 120-134) in the Cairo Genizah
SubtitleTheir Form and Its Implications
ContributorRebecca Ullrich(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0375.08
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0375/chapters/10.11647/obp.0375.08
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
CopyrightRebecca Ullrich
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-12-19
Long abstractThe Songs of Ascents (Pss 120–34) are an important part of the morning liturgy of the rite of the land of Israel, which existed until about the thirteen century ce and was then gradually replaced by the Babylonian rite. In the Cairo Genizah there are fragments containing lists of Pss 120–34 in various formats. All of them can be dated to the period from the tenth to the thirteenth century in Fustat. Given that these lists are single pieces in the Cairo Genizah, they have to be analysed without their specific context. After an introductory presentation on the lists in the Cairo Genizah, Ullrich presents an in-depth material and literary analysis, which includes structure, design, and material inspection of the lists. The most noticeable common feature of the lists examined is their small size. In addition, shorthand is used in all the fragments. Sometimes the place of the psalm in the prayer can be deduced from other entries. In some of them, the psalms were written on the back of the fragment, which suggests a secondary use of the fragment paper. As a conclusion of the analysis, it can be stated that these lists were probably private liturgical lists that may have served as memory aids to/in prayer.
Page rangepp. 215–246
Print length32 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Rebecca Ullrich

(author)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3082-0475

Rebecca Ullrich is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in the project “Materialized Holiness. Torah scrolls as a codicological, theological, and sociological phenomenon of Jewish scribal culture in the Diaspora”. She received her Magister degree in 2010 with a thesis on the Jewish history of the interpretation of the Song of Songs, and her doctorate in 2016 with a dissertation on the Genizah fragments of the She‘iltot Rav Aha. Her research interests include rabbinic and geonic literature, late midrashim and the Cairo Genizah.