ISBN:
9780805212235
Language:
English
Pages:
283 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First Paperback Edition
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Jewish encounters
DDC:
296.09182/20902
Keywords:
Judaism Sources History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
;
Jews Sources History 70-1789
;
Cairo Genizah
;
Judentum
;
Cambridge University Library Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection
;
Schechter, Salomon 1847-1915
Abstract:
Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism
Abstract:
Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism
Description / Table of Contents:
Hidden wisdom -- Serpents and secrets -- All Sirach now -- Into Egypt -- Sorting -- Palimpsests -- That nothing be lost -- A gallery of heretics -- Pieces of the Spanish puzzle -- A Mediterranean society.
