Sifre
Sign in to saveSifre (; siphrēy, Sifre, Sifrei, also, Sifre debe Rab or Sifre Rabbah) refers to either of two works of Midrash halakha, or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Numbers and Deuteronomy.
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- Author
- Yitsḥaḳ Leṿi
- First published
- 1987
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Bible. -- O.T. -- Joshua -- Commentaries.
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- The Talmudic era Sifre
- The present Sifre
- Sifre to Numbers
- Sifre to Deuteronomy
- Final redaction
- Quotation by Raymundus Martini
- Editions and translations
- References
- External links
Sifre (; siphrēy, Sifre, Sifrei, also, Sifre debe Rab or Sifre Rabbah) refers to either of two works of Midrash halakha, or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Numbers and Deuteronomy.
== The Talmudic era Sifre == The title Sifre debe Rav (lit. "the books of the school of Abba Arikha") is used by Chananel ben Chushiel, Isaac Alfasi, and Rashi; it occurs likewise in Makkot 9b.
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