Genizah Research after Ninety Years
The Case of Judaeo-Arabic
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- Editors:
- Joshua Blau
- Stefan C. Reif
- Date Published: May 1992
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521417730
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This volume contains twenty-one studies of various aspects of Judaeo-Arabic, the language spoken by Jews living in the Muslim countries of the Middle Ages. Using mainly the manuscript treasures found in the depository (Genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, the essays, by an international group of scholars belonging to the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, not only deal with linguistic, literary and philosophical ideas of the Jews, but also touch on medicine, magic and relations with other religions. It is the most up-to-date treatment of the subject available in English.
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- Date Published: May 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521417730
- length: 190 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 179 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.493kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 2010
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
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