סופיט ןושלה ילארשי־ץראה לש ידירש תורודהמ ונדמלי־אמוחנת ןמ הזינגה ותמורתו רקחל תווהתה ישרדמ אמוחנתה

This paper examines remnants of a group of unique Tanhuma-Yelammedenu (TY) editions preserved in Cairo Genizah fragments. These editions introduce a consistent stylistic marker that is very rare in rabbinic literature - the use of the divine name םיהולאה. From the linguistic aspect, their Hebrew contains many features which are usually considered authentic distinctive Palestinian rabbinic characteristics. A comparison between the language of these editions and the language of the known TY editions (especially the "standard" printed edition and Solomon Buber's edition) reveals a clear distinction between the two corpora and demonstrates that the Palestinian linguistic features were considerably blurred in the known editions. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the unknown editions preserve the language and style which were in use during the initial emergence of TY literature in the Land of Israel, while the Hebrew of the standard TY editions reflects their later editing in other places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]