The paper presents an interesting inscription that was added to one of the manuscripts of Song of... more The paper presents an interesting inscription that was added to one of the manuscripts of Song of Songs Rabbah. In this addition, Elijah and six from the cave in Jerusalem are mentioned, greeting their brothers in the Cave of Machpelah for the hospitality they received. The paper examines how the addition was incorporated within Midrash Shir Hashirim 2, 5, and the nature of the Oxford Bodliana 102 manuscript in which it appears. The terms 'the poor of Jerusalem' and 'the cave in Jerusalem', as well as the name 'Elijah', help to date the addition and associate it with several other additions pointed out by Marc Hirschman, written in the mid-11th century by Rabbi Eliyahu ben Menachem. The dating of the passage sheds new light on the custom of pilgrimage to the Cave of Machpelah in the middle of the 11th century, and shows the practice of hospitality of pilgrims by Jews who lived there.
The paper presents an interesting inscription that was added to one of the manuscripts of Song of... more The paper presents an interesting inscription that was added to one of the manuscripts of Song of Songs Rabbah. In this addition, Elijah and six from the cave in Jerusalem are mentioned, greeting their brothers in the Cave of Machpelah for the hospitality they received. The paper examines how the addition was incorporated within Midrash Shir Hashirim 2, 5, and the nature of the Oxford Bodliana 102 manuscript in which it appears. The terms 'the poor of Jerusalem' and 'the cave in Jerusalem', as well as the name 'Elijah', help to date the addition and associate it with several other additions pointed out by Marc Hirschman, written in the mid-11th century by Rabbi Eliyahu ben Menachem. The dating of the passage sheds new light on the custom of pilgrimage to the Cave of Machpelah in the middle of the 11th century, and shows the practice of hospitality of pilgrims by Jews who lived there.
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