Pesikta de-Rav Kahana (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פסיקתא דרב כהנא) is a collection of aggadic midrash which exists in two editions, those of Salomon Buber (Lyck, 1868) and Bernard Mandelbaum (1962).
The Jewish Babylonian Aramaic term psiqtā "section" is cognate to Hebrew פָּסוּק pāsuq "verse."
According to the arrangement in this edition, the homilies fall into three groups of pesaqot: (Hebrew: פְּסָקוֹת, romanized: pəsāqoṯdiscourses [on the lessons], singular pisqā פסקה): Pentateuchal, Prophetic, and Tishri.
But the proems in the Pesikta, developed from short introductions to the exposition of the scripture into more independent homiletic structures, as well as the mastery of form apparent in the final formulas of the proems, indicate that the Pesikta belongs to a higher stage of midrashic development.
The text of the current Pesikta was probably not finally fixed until its first printing, presumably in Salomon Buber's edition.
[1] The nature of certain Pentateuch lessons, intended apparently for the second feast days celebrated in the Jewish Diaspora, still calls for investigation.