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The text currently known as the Aramaic Levi Document was first discovered in the Cambridge Genizah collection at the very end of the nineteenth century. The Cambridge fragment was soon joined by another fragment from the same tenth-century manuscript in the Oxford Genizah collection at the Bodleian Library, and these fragments were later supplemented by fragments of the same composition found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The present paper publishes a third fragment of the same Genizah manuscript, this time from the Manchester Genizah collection (fragment no. P 1185, measuring 12.8 x 11.4 cm). The new fragment covers parts of the story of the destruction of Shechem by Jacob's sons after the rape of Dinah, and sheds new light on Aramaic Levi's version of these events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]