"From a Sacred Source"
Genizah Studies in Honour of Professor Stefan C. Reif. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 1
Biographical note
Ben M. Outhwaite, Ph.D. (2000) in Medieval Hebrew Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is Head of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library. He has published works on the Hebrew language and medieval Jewish manuscripts.
Siam Bhayro, Ph.D. (2000) in Semitic Languages, University College London, is lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include Bible, Semitic Languages, Early Judaism, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.
Siam Bhayro, Ph.D. (2000) in Semitic Languages, University College London, is lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter. His research interests include Bible, Semitic Languages, Early Judaism, medicine in the Christian and Islamic orient, and Jewish magic.
Readership
All those interested in Jewish or Genizah Studies, medieval Islamic and Mediterranean Studies, Hebrew or Arabic linguistics, and the social and economic history of the Mediterranean and Near East.
Table of contents
Stefan Reif: an Appreciation
Ben M. Outhwaite
Publications of Professor Stefan C. Reif
Legal Writing in Medieval Cairo: ‘Copy’ or ‘Likeness’ in Jewish Documentary Formulae
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman
The Paper and Textile Industry in the Land of Israel and its Raw Materials in Light of an Analysis of the Cairo Genizah Documents
Zohar Amar, Azriel Gorski and Izhar Neumann
Is ‘The Cairo Genizah’ a Proper Name or a Generic Noun? On the Relationship Between the Genizot of the Ben Ezra and the Dar Simḥa Synagogues
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Towards a Catalogue of the Magical, Astrological, Divinatory and Alchemical Fragments from the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Gideon Bohak
The Law of Power of Attorney in Maimonides’ Code of Jewish Law
Mark Cohen
The Role of Egyptian Jews in Sixteenth-Century International Trade with Europe:
a Chapter in Social-Economic Integration in the Middle East
Abraham David
The Contribution of Genizah Texts to the Study of Siddur Rabbi Solomon ben Nathan
Uri Ehrlich
Genizah Documents as Literary Products
Miriam Frenkel
Judah ha-Levi on Writing the Kuzari: Responding to a Heretic
Mordechai A. Friedman
The Cairo Genizah Unearthed: the Excavations Conducted by the Count d’Hulst on behalf of the Bodleian Library and their Significance for Genizah History
Rebecca Jefferson
Vocalised Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah
Geoffrey Khan
Early Karaite Grammatical Thought as Reflected in a Commentary on Hosea
Friedrich Niessen ז״ל
An Early Palimpsest Scroll of the Book of Kings from the Cairo Genizah
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Compositional Technique in Qillirian Piyyuṭim for Rain and Dew
Michael Rand
The Genizah and Jewish Communal History
Marina Rustow
Orders of Payment, Orders of Supply, Instructions for Payment and Statements of Credit in the Genizah and Other Collections at Cambridge University
Avihai Shivtiel
The Weakening of the Bourgeoisie: Social Changes Mirrored in the Language of the Genizah Letters
Esther-Miriam Wagner
Eretz–Israel Maḥzorim in the Genizah: from Palaeography to Liturgy
Joseph Yahalom
Consigned to the Genizah — but for only a third of a century
Stefan Reif
Ben M. Outhwaite
Publications of Professor Stefan C. Reif
Legal Writing in Medieval Cairo: ‘Copy’ or ‘Likeness’ in Jewish Documentary Formulae
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman
The Paper and Textile Industry in the Land of Israel and its Raw Materials in Light of an Analysis of the Cairo Genizah Documents
Zohar Amar, Azriel Gorski and Izhar Neumann
Is ‘The Cairo Genizah’ a Proper Name or a Generic Noun? On the Relationship Between the Genizot of the Ben Ezra and the Dar Simḥa Synagogues
Haggai Ben-Shammai
Towards a Catalogue of the Magical, Astrological, Divinatory and Alchemical Fragments from the Cambridge Genizah Collections
Gideon Bohak
The Law of Power of Attorney in Maimonides’ Code of Jewish Law
Mark Cohen
The Role of Egyptian Jews in Sixteenth-Century International Trade with Europe:
a Chapter in Social-Economic Integration in the Middle East
Abraham David
The Contribution of Genizah Texts to the Study of Siddur Rabbi Solomon ben Nathan
Uri Ehrlich
Genizah Documents as Literary Products
Miriam Frenkel
Judah ha-Levi on Writing the Kuzari: Responding to a Heretic
Mordechai A. Friedman
The Cairo Genizah Unearthed: the Excavations Conducted by the Count d’Hulst on behalf of the Bodleian Library and their Significance for Genizah History
Rebecca Jefferson
Vocalised Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah
Geoffrey Khan
Early Karaite Grammatical Thought as Reflected in a Commentary on Hosea
Friedrich Niessen ז״ל
An Early Palimpsest Scroll of the Book of Kings from the Cairo Genizah
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Compositional Technique in Qillirian Piyyuṭim for Rain and Dew
Michael Rand
The Genizah and Jewish Communal History
Marina Rustow
Orders of Payment, Orders of Supply, Instructions for Payment and Statements of Credit in the Genizah and Other Collections at Cambridge University
Avihai Shivtiel
The Weakening of the Bourgeoisie: Social Changes Mirrored in the Language of the Genizah Letters
Esther-Miriam Wagner
Eretz–Israel Maḥzorim in the Genizah: from Palaeography to Liturgy
Joseph Yahalom
Consigned to the Genizah — but for only a third of a century
Stefan Reif
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In Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer Joachim Yeshaya offers an edition of liturgical poems composed by the twelfth-century Egyptian Karaite poet Moses Darʿī, which are analyzed as early examples of the introduction of poetry and “memory” into Karaite prayer.
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This volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied with English translation and commentary, of Sefer ha-Moladot, which addresses the doctrine and the system of continuous horoscopy in nativities, and of Sefer ha-Tequfah, which focuses exclusively on continuous horoscopy in nativities.
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In The Genizah Psalms David M. Stec presents an edition of the Hebrew text of MS 798 of the Antonin Collection together with an English translation, introduction, commentary and analysis of language.
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The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”.
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The manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are a unique source for medieval medical history. In this study, Lev and Chipman offer an insight into the everyday practical medicine of medieval Egypt, as revealed by the prescriptions in the Genizah.
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The articles of this volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms by Iberian Jewish, Christian and converso exegetes, translators, philosophers, artists, and literary authors between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492.
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The responsa in the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection (10th–18th century) offer a vivid window into Jewish social and legal history, wherein one discovers the rich facets of the private and public life of the medieval and early-modern Jewish community.
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Through the analysis of transcribed verbal testimonies of the Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century a vision of Jewish Ottoman life as well as a deep understanding of the development of Judeo-Spanish can be appreciated.
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This book studies verbal morphological theories expressed in medieval Karaite grammars of Biblical Hebrew, in particular Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya. Furthermore, it examines Karaite approaches to the verbal classification and didactic tools used in Karaite pedagogical grammars.
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