Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Cairo Genizah Collection, Halper 317, f. 2v, from the tenth to twelfth century CE. Lines 21ff. contain a twenty-line riddle attributed to Dunash ben Labrat.
Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat (920/925 – after 985)[1] (Hebrew: ר׳ דוֹנָש הַלֵּוִי בֵּן לָבְּרָט; Arabic: دناش بن لبراط) was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He is known for his philological commentary, Teshuvot Dunash, and for his liturgical poems D'ror Yiqra and D'vai Haser.
^José Martínez Delgado, 'Dunash ben Labraṭ ha-Levi', in Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed. by Norman A. Stillman and others (Leiden: Brill, 2010), s.v.
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Language" (1146). Sefat Yeter, in defense of Saadia Gaon against DunashbenLabrat, whose criticism of Saadia ibn Ezra had brought with him from Egypt...
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Andalusia, and, along with Sarah of Yemen and the anonymous wife of DunashbenLabrat, one of few known female Jewish poets throughout the Middle Ages....
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poetry the strict Arabic meter introduced by DunashbenLabrat. Abraham ibn Ezra calls Gabirol, not benLabrat, "the writer of metric songs," and in Sefer...
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