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On the Date of Composition of the Book of Commandments by the Qaraite Levi b. Yefet

Vidro, Nadia; (2022) On the Date of Composition of the Book of Commandments by the Qaraite Levi b. Yefet. Zutot 10.1163/18750214-bja10033. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The Book of Commandments of the influential Qaraite scholar Levi b. Yefet is traditionally dated 1006/7 CE. This date is based on the Hebrew translation of the Book of Commandments and is irreconcilable with a calendrical characteristic of this year provided by Levi b. Yefet. In this article I propose to revise the date of composition of the Book of Commandments to 1009 CE. This date is given in a copy of the Arabic original of the code and is calendrically consistent. I also discuss events in the calendar of Palestinian Qaraites that prompted Levi b. Yefet to mention the year in which he was writing and that took place due to irregular weather patterns.

Type: Article
Title: On the Date of Composition of the Book of Commandments by the Qaraite Levi b. Yefet
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1163/18750214-bja10033
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1163/18750214-bja10033
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Qaraism; Levi b. Yefet; manuscripts; Firkovitch Collection; calendar; climate
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149475
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