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.

Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

Author: Cambridge University Library

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-07-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780521420761

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This catalogue will serve as an essential research tool for scholars studying early manuscriptal evidence of targumic literature. It provides a descriptive entry for every targum fragment in the Cambridge Genizah Collections. 1600 fragments - spanning a period of almost a thousand years - have been identified among the 140,000 items in Cambridge. The freshly identified manuscripts will provide the basis for topical research in the fields of Semitic languages, targumic studies, and the history of rabbinic Bible translation.

Vocalised Talmudic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 1, Taylor-Schechter Old Series
Vocalised Talmudic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 1, Taylor-Schechter Old Series

Author: Cambridge University Library

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-07-29

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780521268639

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Professor Morag presents the results of a painstaking investigation of significant linguistic and textual aspects of 165 medieval manuscripts in the 'Old Series' of the famous Taylor-Schechter Collection. The vocalisation found in these manuscripts exhibits signs and forms characteristic of the Tiberian, Babylonian ('simple' as well as 'complex') and Palestino-Tiberian systems and sheds important light on the grammatical structure and meaning of the words in which it occurs. This pioneering study includes detailed descriptions of the manuscripts containing the vocalisation and eleven plates that illustrate the author's classification of the material.

A Hand-List of Rabbinic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 1
A Hand-List of Rabbinic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Volume 1

Author: Cambridge University Library

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-12-10

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521584005

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The Taylor-Schechter New Series contains over 40,000 manuscript fragments that originated in the world famous Cairo Genizah. These fragments are extremely important for research, but students are hampered by the difficulties involved in identifying and gathering the fragments pertaining to particular works or genres. This volume represents an important step toward classifying the contents of the collection and increasing its accessibility, especially with regard to those fragments that belong to the various genres of rabbinic literature.

Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections

Author: Cambridge University Library

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-03-20

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780521583992

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In the Semitic languages the vowels are not part of the alphabet and each Semitic language has its special method of marking its particular vowel values. In the Hebrew of Late Antiquity, a supralinear method of doing this was first introduced after the Arabic conquest of Palestine in the seventh century. It was used mainly for liturgical purposes in complicated poetic texts, and it was soon displaced by the classical Tiberian system. The oldest existing specimens of this supralinear method are on vellum manuscripts from Cairo where the remaining fragments were deposited by Jewish refugees from Crusader Palestine at the end of the eleventh century. The fragments from the Cairo depository, known as the Cairo Genizah, are best represented in the Genizah Collections at Cambridge University Library. This volume gives for the first time a full description of the scattered and torn fragments, as well as of their notational value.