The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China
Biographical note
Fook-kong Wong, Th.D. (1998) in Hebrew Bible, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has contributed entries in NIDB, EBR and
written numerous articles in Chinese journals and books.
Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is Lecturer of Persian Language and Literature at Harvard University. She is co-author of the Persian textbook, Proficiency in Persian (Persian Language Resources, 2007) and has contributed articles to such publications as EJIW and EHLL.
written numerous articles in Chinese journals and books.
Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is Lecturer of Persian Language and Literature at Harvard University. She is co-author of the Persian textbook, Proficiency in Persian (Persian Language Resources, 2007) and has contributed articles to such publications as EJIW and EHLL.
Readership
This book will appeal to a general audience interested in Chinese history and Jewish Studies as well as scholars interested in religious diasporas, Iranian history and languages and cross-cultural transactions with China.
Reviews
"Much has been written about this community, but this is the first detailed analysis of the Passover Haggadah as it was preserved in Kaifeng [...] This volume should interest not only specialists in liturgy but also students interested in far-flung Jewish communities, researchers interested in the Persian Jewish community, experts on Hebrew, and others as well."
Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in Religious Studies Review 38.4
Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in Religious Studies Review 38.4
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Haggadah Manuscripts of the Kaifeng Jews
Chapter Two: The Community's Knowledge of Hebrew as Reflected in their Haggadah
Chapter Three: Hebrew in the Kaifeng Haggadah
Chapter Four: The Judeo-Persian of KH
Chapter Five: Order of the Service
Chapter One: Haggadah Manuscripts of the Kaifeng Jews
Chapter Two: The Community's Knowledge of Hebrew as Reflected in their Haggadah
Chapter Three: Hebrew in the Kaifeng Haggadah
Chapter Four: The Judeo-Persian of KH
Chapter Five: Order of the Service
€164.00$228.00
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book addresses a variety of aspects of the early Hebrew book often treated in a cursory manner. The essays encompass book arts, printing-places and printers, and unusual book varia.
€101.00$140.00
Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam.
€199.00$277.00
Shoshannat Yaakov includes studies by leading scholars on Ancient Jewish and Iranian Studies and essays that combine both fields in the new discipline of Irano-Talmudica.
€173.00$237.00
This work revisits the millennia-old Jewish-Christian encounter by providing a nuanced understanding of its challenges as well as presenting new perspectives on hitherto neglected areas of cultural, religious, and social interchange and influence.
€132.00$171.00
This edited collection honors Menahem Schmelzer's influence upon the field of Jewish liturgy. Three generations of scholars apply different analytical methods to varying texts and ritual occasions, providing an up-to-date picture of the field and its implications for related areas.
€96.00$124.00
Drawing on the scholasticism of the Late Nehardean amoraim, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of their halakhic/legal methodology, identity and dating. This analysis contributes to the scientific approach of the Bavli, and allows a better understanding of the development of Jewish Law.
€113.00$146.00
Top scholars in Judaic and Christian studies treat the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity, reflecting on how the two faiths have related to and been shaped by each other as they evolved in shared historical and cultural contexts, even as each has maintained its own distinctive ...
€83.00$108.00
This study of early Rabbinic texts provides fresh and fascinating insights into the attitudes of the Rabbis towards “outsiders.”
€169.00$219.00
This volume deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. This work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages.
- 1 of 4
- ››
No additional information