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THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW NEW SERIES

EDITED BY CYRUS ADLER

VOL. XI APRIL 1921 No. 4

CONTENTS PAGE

I. THE LAST GEONIM OF SURA ............ ...... ... 409

II. A FIHRIST OF SA'ADYA'S WORKS .............. . 423

III. ABRAHAM B. NATHAN (ABU ISIHAK IBRAHIM B. 'ATA), NAGID OF KAIROWNAN.

DR. JACOB MANN ... .. ... ....... .. . ........... . ... ... 429

ADDENDA TO 'THE RESPONSA OF THE BABYLONIAN GEONIM AS A SOURCE OF JEWISH HISTORY'.

DR. JACOB MANN ... ...... ..................... ... 433

CRITICAL NOTICES:

BIBLICAL LITERATURE. DR. JACOB HOSCHANDER ... ... ... ... .. . .. .... ... 473

JEWISH MEDICINE. DR. SOLOMON SOIIs COHEN ,. ... .... .. ....... ... 543

SOME NOTES TO MAHZOR YANNAI. PROF. ISRAEL DAVIDSON ... .............. ... .... 553

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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).

HE 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

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