109 Gressmann is sure that this “man of lies” must be Bar Coziba (Bar Cocheba), the Messianic leader of the rebellion under Hadrian. He might have added that the contrast to the true star out of Jacob, the founder of the sect, would be peculiarly pertinent. The punning etymology, “Say not ‘Star,’ but ‘liar’ ” (Echa Rabbathi on Lam. 2 2), is ascribed to the Patriarch Judah. 110 Perhaps the manuscripts may have been in the possession of some Rabbanite controversialist in Egypt, and thus found their way, like various Karaite writings, into the Genizah of the Synagogue.