Genizah Research after Ninety Years
Genizah Research after Ninety Years
Stefan C. Reif
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The collection of Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish manuscript material that was deposited in the Cairo Genizah as early as a thousand years ago is of major significance for our understanding of all aspects of life in the medieval Mediterranean world. This volume presents a selection of papers from the third congress of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies: after introductory material by the editors, it ranges over a wide area of Judaeo-Arabic language and literature, giving the reader a clear impression of recent research in the field. Among the topics covered are the early grammarians, translators and commentators; newly discovered texts of poetry, liturgy and legend; and the religious differences between Jews, Muslims and Christians. The various activities of the Maimonides family naturally attract attention; there are studies of contemporary medicine and magic; and an explanation is offered of Jewish trilingualism. As well as presenting the most recent research in this area, the essays offer a unique insight into the medieval symbiosis of Jewish and Arabic culture. They will be of interest not only to scholars in these areas, but also to those interested in medieval history and philosophy, oriental folklore and medicine.
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April 1992Hardback
9780521417730
190 pages
254 × 179 × 14 mm
0.493kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Transliteration
- 1. Introductory remarks: semitic scholarship at Cambridge
- 2. Some new sources for the study of the text and language of Saadya's translation of the Pentateuch into Judaeo-Arabic
- 3. Traces of Judah Ibn Quraysh in manuscript, particularly in Genizah fragments
- 4. Some Genizah fragments on the duty of the nations to keep the mosaic law
- 5. On a fragment of the oldest Judaeo-Arabic Bible translation extant
- 6. Saadya Gaon on the limits of liturgical flexibility
- 7. A hymn of praise and a letter of supplication from the Cairo Genizah
- 8. “Words beautifully put”: Hebrew versus Arabic in tenth-century Jewish literature
- 9. Mukhtasar (an abridgement of) Hidayat al-Qari: a grammatical treatise discovered in the Genizah
- 10. Daniel Ibn al-Mashita's Taqwim al-Adyan: new light on the oriental phase of The Maimonidean controversy
- 11. Responsa of Abraham Maimonides on a debtor's travails
- 12. Arabis elements in the Hebrew of the Byzantine Karaites
- 13. Medical texts in Judaeo-Arabic from the Genizah
- 15. Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf and Nestor ha-komer: the earliest Arabic and Hebrew Jewish anti-Christian polemics
- 16. The lexical element in David Alfasi's dictionary definitions
- 17. An Iraqi Judaeo-Arabic version of Ma'aseh Avraham: some literary and linguistic features
- 18. The genealogy of Sefo (Swjar) ben Elifaz: the importance of a Genizah fragment for Josippon's history
- 19. Taqdir and its counterparts in mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic
- 20. Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf: a case study in polemical literature
- 21. The magical texts in the Cairo Genizah
- Indexes.
