Sifre Devarim

• Common name – ספרי דברים²
• Other names – 

3rd century

SifDeut was redacted in Eretz Yisrael.

Mishnaic Hebrew

• Manuscripts – The best manuscript of SifDeut is ms Vatican 32.  Other important manuscripts include London 341, Oxford 151, and Berlin Tubingen 1594.33. These manuscripts are near-complete versions of SifDeut. There are also partial manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah and others.³
• Printings – L. Finkelstein published a critical edition in 1939 in Berlin, which was republished in New York in 1969.⁴ The text for the edition was based on the four major available manuscripts (see above, Manuscripts) and the first edition, as well as several Genizah fragments and secondary citations.
• Textual layers – Scholarly consensus is that the main unit of SifDeut (from Devarm 12:1-26:15, piskaot 59-303) was supplemented with material from other sources that form the units on 6:4-9 and 11:13-21 (both passages from Shema), piskaot 31-36 and 41-47, and perhaps other sections.⁵

• – midrash halakhah

• – SifDeut covers six distinct units in Devarim:
  1:1-30, 3:23-29, 6:4-9, 11:10-26:15, 31:14, 32:1-34:12.
  The printed versions are divided into sections called piskaot.⁶

• – See Introduction to the Midreshei Halakhah.

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• – SifDeut was widely known and used by medieval exegetes.

• – Important commentaries to SifDeut by Rishonim include those of Rabbenu Hillel⁷ and Raavad,⁸ among others.⁹ Significant commentaries by Acharonim include those of R. David Pardo (ספרי דבי רב), R. Meir Friedmann-Ish Shalom (מאיר עין)  and R. Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv) (עמק הנציב).