A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo
A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo

Author: Stefan Reif

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1136117709

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Explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two centres. Also shows the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history.

The Cambridge Genizah Collections
The Cambridge Genizah Collections

Author: Shulamit Reif

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-23

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521813617

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A collection of essays by international experts summarizing recent developments in Genizah research.

Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni
Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni

Author: Piergabriele Mancuso

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-04-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9004181105

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Sefer Hakhmoni by the 10th-century Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most important documents of the “Hebrew Renaissance” of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the 9th and the 11th centuries. Written as a commentary on Sefer Yeîirah (Book of Formation, an anonymous text probably written in Palestine between the 3rd and the 6th centuries), Sefer Hakhmoni is in fact a much more complex work, consisting of biblical exegesis, astrology, medicine, a detailed analysis of the neo-Platonic idea of melothesia, and the correspondence between the elements of the microcosm and macrocosm. This volume offers the critical text, an annotated English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Donnolo and his works.

Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza
Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza

Author: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9789004108868

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The edition and linguistic, palaeographic and legal analysis of 65 marriage documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza shed a unique light on the socio-economic and intellectual history of the mediaeval Karaite Jews who wrote them.

Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza
Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza

Author: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9004497536

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This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general.