Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The Reader's Digest Latin Iliad in the Cairo Geniza?

GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (FEBRUARY 2019): The Latin Iliad in the Cairo Genizah (T-S Misc. 27.2 c-e) (Gideon Bohak and Serena Ammirati).
How did these fragments of a Crusader-period copy of a first century CE Latin reworking of a Greek poem of the eighth or seventh century BCE end up in the Cairo Genizah?
I've said it before. The Cairo Geniza is the philologist's gift that keeps on giving.

Past posts noting Cairo Geniza Fragments of the Month in the Cambridge University Library's Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit are here and links.

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