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.