Tuesday, February 27, 2018

statistics - How many Parshios are in each Sefer of Tanach?


How many words are there in Tanach? already asks about several statistics about Sifrei Tanach, but there's one that was left out:


How many Parshios are in each Sefer of Tanach?


A Parsha is defined as all the text between one gap in a Sefer Torah and the next, whether that gap is a 9-letter space ("setumah"), continues until the end of the line ("pesuchah"), or is the end of the Sefer.


I'm aware that there are different Minhagim on the matter; I'd be curious to see all of the major ones.



Answer



According to the Aleppo Codex the number of breaks are:




  • Genesis - 92

  • Exodus - 165

  • Leviticus - 99

  • Numbers - 159

  • Deuteronomy - 159


(based on Rambam's testimony in Hilkhot Sefer Torah chapter 8)



  • Joshua - 106


  • Judges - 88

  • Samuel - 369

  • Kings - 205

  • Isaiah - 242

  • Jeremiah - 281

  • Ezekiel - 185

  • Hosea - 18

  • Joel - 7

  • Amos - 28

  • Obadiah - 1


  • Jonah - 4

  • Micah - 17

  • Nahum - 4

  • Habakkuk - 9

  • Zephania - 7

  • Haggai - 8

  • Zachariah - 36

  • Malakhi - 8

  • Chronicles - 519

  • Ruth - 2


  • Canticles - 20

  • Ecclesiastes - 2

  • Lamentations - 134

  • Esther - 23

  • Daniel - 28

  • Ezra - 319


(based on Mechon Mamre's text with variations, based on testimony of the Codex's contents, in places where the Codex is currently missing and MM used another source)


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