Fragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation: Found in a Judeo-Persian Commentary/Glossary on Isaiah from the “Afghan Genizah”

Fragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation: Found in a Judeo-Persian Commentary/Glossary on Isaiah from the “Afghan Genizah”ScriniumSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/W5XJ2LQS/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Dan D. Y.ShapiraFragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation: Found in a Judeo-Persian Commentary/Glossary on Isaiah from the “Afghan Genizah”http://syriaca.org/cbss/W5XJ2LQShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/W5XJ2LQShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/W5XJ2LQSScrinium192023375-378In the “Afghan Genizah,” a recently acquired collection of texts in Judeo-Persian, Early New-Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic from the tenth to thirteenth centuries, I recognized a Judeo-Persian fragment of a Jewish, anti-Christian polemic work. This fragment may be – or may not be – part of the <i>Toledoth Yeshu</i> literature. It contains a Gospel quotation in Syriac in Hebrew letters. Shapira, Dan D. Y. “Fragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation: Found in a Judeo-Persian Commentary/Glossary on Isaiah from the ‘Afghan Genizah.’” Scrinium 19 (2023): 375–78. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10074. Dan D. Y. Shapira, Fragment of an Anti-Christian Polemic with a Syriac Gospel Quotation: Found in a Judeo-Persian Commentary/Glossary on Isaiah from the ‘Afghan Genizah,’ Scrinium 19 (2023): 375–78, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-bja10074.