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THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIE^
NEW SERIES
EDITED BY CYRUS ADLER
Vol. XII
JANUARY 1922
No. 3
CONTENTS
PAGE
A TRACT BY AN EARLY KARAITE SETTLER IN JERUSALEM.
Dr. Jacob Mann
NOTES ON POST-TALMUDIC-ARAMAIC LEXICOGRAPHY.
Dr. J. N. Epstein ... ...
CRITICAL NOTICES:
A HITHERTO UNKNOWN TERM IN MEDIAEVAL HEBREW
PROSODY.
Professor Israei, Davidson ... agi
OESTERLEY'S « SAYINGS OF THE JEWISH FATHERS'.
Dr. Jacob Kohn 393
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FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING
S.E. Cor. BROAD AND YORK STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA.
London: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
per annum
THE DROPSIE COLLEGE
For Hebrew and Cognate Learning
in the City of Philadelphia
A post-graduate institution leading to the Degree
of Doctor of Philosophy
President: Cyrus Adler, M.A. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. (Johns
Hopkins).
Professor of Biblical Philology: Max L. Margolis, M.A., Ph.D.
(Columbia).
Professor of Rabbinical Literature: Henry Malter, Ph.D.
(Heidelberg).
Resident Lecturer in Jewish Jurisprudence and Institutes of Govern-
ment: Judge Mayer Sulzberger, LL.D. (Jefferson, Temple),
H.L.D. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America).
Instructor in Cognate Languages: Jacob Hoschander, Ph.D.
(Marburg).
Instructor in History: Abraham A. Neuman, M.A. (Columbia),
H.L.D. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America).
Instructor in Biblical Philology : Joseph Reider, B. A. (College of
the City of New York), Ph.D. (Dropsie College).
Instructor in Talmud and Arabic: B. Halper, M.A. (London),
Ph.D. (Dropsie College).
THE College offers instruction in Biblical and Rabbinical
Literatures, in the Semitic Languages, and in Jewish
History. In the admission of students there is no dis-
tinction on account of creed, color or sex. There is no
tuition fee in the College.
Fellowships yielding Five Hundred Dollars annually have
been established and will be awarded each year at the
meeting of the Governors in the month of May.
For information concerning Degrees, Fellowships, Courses,
&c, apply in writing to Dr. Cyrus Adler, President of
the Dropsie College, S.E. Cor. Broad and York Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.
