דפים נוספים מתוך ספר "בן-סירא"

The article contains, in its first part, some brief information regarding the origin and character of the "New Series" of the collection of Geniza fragments at Cambridge. From a manuscript that belongs to this series, a new leaf from the Hebrew text of Ecclesiasticus was published in Tarbiẕ, a year and a half ago (Vol. xxvii, pp. 440—443). Three additional leaves of this work are now printed here. They, too, were all of them discovered amongst the MSS of the "New Series". The first forms part of the MS known to scholars by the name of MS B, as was the other leaf already reproduced in Tarbiẕ. The new leaf listed in library T-S, NS, Box 193, no. 107 contains vv. 10, 19—11, 10 of Ecclesiasticus. The two remaining leaves listed T.-S., NS, Box 194, no. 114 belong to the copy called MS C. Sixty years ago S. Schechter published two other leaves of the same copy (JQR, xii, 1900), and it is interesting that one of these leaves follows on exactly from where the first leaf in our edition further on leaves off, whilst the second leaf of the new source follows on from where the second leaf of Schechter leaves off. The new leaves contain vv.: 3: 14—18, 21, 22; 40: 16; 4: 21; 20: 22—23; 4: 22—23a; 26: 2b, 3, 13, 15—17; 36: 27—31. As in the other leaves of C known to us, here too, the leaves of the book are not copied down in their proper order, but constitute a selection of verses taken from various places. The text of the new fragments is given further in photostat and copy, each line facing a line of the original. In my comments to the edition, I have noted the variant readings to this text, those found in other copies of the Hebrew Ecclesiasticus as well as those emerging from the ancient translations into Syriac and Greek. In the new texts there are a large number of variants of all kinds, and even some completions to verses that were incomplete in other sources. They contain also a number of verses hitherto not extant in the Hebrew text. All of these leaves constitute a mine of important material for research into the Hebrew text of Ecclesiasticus and its relation to the ancient translations.