From the Battlefield of Books Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill
[2024]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; 99/16. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009858454806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 The Genizah Research Unit at 50
- Melonie Schmierer-Lee
- 2 New Maimonidean Documents
- Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum
- 3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. Jacob
- Kim Phillips
- 4 Two Fragments of Saadya’s Tafsīr by Samuel b. Jacob
- Ronny Vollandt
- 5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of Antiochus
- Siam Bhayro
- 6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist Circle
- Paul Fenton
- 7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava Meṣia
- Julia G. Krivoruchko
- 8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?
- Avihai Shivtiel
- 9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-Tilmīḏ’s Aqrābāḏīn Found in the Cairo Genizah
- Leigh Chipman
- 10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch Collection
- Geoffrey Khan
- 11 Qiṣṣat al-Ğumǧuma : An Arabic-script Version of ‘The Story of the Skull’ in the Cairo Genizah Collections
- Magdalen M. Connolly
- 12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
- Mohamed Ahmed
- 13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn Sāqawayh?
- Nadia Vidro
- 14 Three Examples of a New ‘Mental Time’ in Karaite Exegetical Sources
- Meira Polliack
- 15 “To Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gaza”: Margaret Gibson’s 1896 Expedition from Cairo to Jerusalem
- Catherine Ansorge
- 16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Miner’s Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden Death
- Nick Posegay
- 17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to Cambridge
- Rebecca J.W. Jefferson
- 18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973–1985
- Stefan C. Reif
- Index.
