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December 29, 2023

A Medieval Aramaic Hanukkah Ballad

The Scroll of Antiochus in its many forms.

Hanukkah may have come and gone, but since it’s still December I hope it’s not too late to share Cambridge University Library’s “fragment of the month” from the famous collection of Jewish manuscripts known as the Cairo Genizah. To understand this fragment, one must be familiar with the now-forgotten Aramaic text on which it is based, Marc Michaels writes.

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