Author: E. J. RevellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781589834873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies
Author: E. J. RevellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781589834873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies, 1995
Author: International Organization for Masoretic Studies. International CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : bo
Pages : 196
Book Description
Published Material from the Cambridge Genizah Collection: Volume 2
Author: Geoffrey KhanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521750868
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
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The Lost Archive
Author: Marina RustowPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691189528
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.
The Cambridge Genizah Collections
Author: Shulamit ReifPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521813617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A collection of essays by international experts summarizing recent developments in Genizah research.
Religion Index Two
Author: Heresy and the Politics of Community
Author: Marina RustowPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition.Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries.Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.
Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World
Author: Nicholas de LangePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781169
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book surveys what has been achieved in recent research on medieval Hebrew language and texts.
Interpreting Translation
Author: Florentino García MartínezPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042916890
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The 30 essays by some of the most prominent scholars on the field of Septuagint studies collected in this volume deal with the Septuagint in general and with the Septuagint of Ezekiel in particular, but also with text-critical, philological, lexicographical and theological topics, faithfully reflecting the wide range of interests of Professor Johan Lust. Edited by F. Garca Martnez and Marc Vervenne.
Hamlet on a Hill
Author: Martin F. J. BaastenPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042912151
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This volume is published in honour of Professor Takamitsu Muraoka on the occasion of his retirement from the Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at Leiden University, a date which coincides with the celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. The laureate is well known for his expertise in the languages of the Bible and cognate studies and this volume includes contributions covering as far as possible the wide field of his interests. Some of his friends and colleagues from all parts of the world are presenting him with this valuable collection of forty-two articles. They include studies on the Greek of the Septuagint; Hebrew (Biblical and Qumran); Aramaic (Old, Offical and Qumran; Syriac and Neo-Aramaic); Canaanite (Amarna, Ugaritic and Phoenician-Punic); Medieval Jewish exegesis and Karaite studies. M.F.J. Baasten and W.Th. van Peursen, two former students of Muraoka at Leiden, have edited the volume.