History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies

An Online Exhibition from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2003-2004 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania

The Third Rabbinic Bible.

'Arba` ve-`esrim.
Venitsyah ha-birah : Ve-nidpaso ba-vet ba-mitsvat Daniyel y.ts.v. ben Korni'el Bombirgi z.l., shenat 308 [=1547 or 1548]

Volume one of the Third Rabbinic Bible (Pentateuch, with Five Scrolls).
Frontispiece, in tradition Sha`ar, or "gate" format.

Volume one, open to Numbers 4:3 (fol. 154 recto). The commentary of the Ashkenazic scholar Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac, Troyes, 1040-1105) forms the outer right column framing the Hebrew text and Targum, while that of the Sefardic scholar Abraham ibn Ezra (Toledo, 1092 or 1093 - Calahorra(?), 1667) forms the outer left column.

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