Geonic Jurisprudence from the Cairo Genizah: An Appreciation of Early Scholarship

1997 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Neil Danzig
Keyword(s):  
Cairo Genizah

Christian Books in Jewish Libraries: Fragments of Christian Arabic Writings from the Cairo Genizah

Ginzei Qedem ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 107-158
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
New Information ◽  
Cairo Genizah

This paper contributes new information about Jewish-Christian contacts in the Islamic world by drawing attention to a small group of Christian Arabic fragments preserved in the Cairo Genizah

scholarly journals The ‘oldest dated document of the Cairo Genizah’ (Halper 331): The Seleucid era and sectarian Jewish calendars

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
EVE KRAKOWSKI ◽  
SACHA STERN
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Dating Methods ◽  
Marriage Contract ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Document ◽  
Cairo Genizah ◽  
Medieval Egypt

Abstract Halper 331 is the fragment of a codex that has been styled the ‘oldest dated document of the Cairo Genizah’. It preserves the opening of a Jewish legal document dated to the year 1182 (Seleucid era), which appears to have been copied into this codex, probably as a formulary, not long after this date, in the late 9th century. In this article, the text of this fragment, in Aramaic and Hebrew, is edited, and its identification as the beginning of a marriage contract (ketubbah) is evaluated. Its Egyptian provenance is questioned, partly because the earliest evidence for the introduction of the Seleucid era by Jews in Egypt dates from the mid-10th century. The article surveys the history of Jewish dating methods in early medieval Egypt and the Near East, in an attempt to clarify this question. The specific date of the document deviates from the rabbinic calendar, but agrees with that of the contemporary Jewish Near Eastern sectarian groups of Abū ʿImrān al-Tiflīsī and Ismāʿīl al-ʿUkbarī; this document could thus uniquely attest one of these sectarian Jewish calendars.

scholarly journals Automatically identifying join candidates in the Cairo Genizah

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Wolf ◽  
Rotem Littman ◽  
Naama Mayer ◽  
Nachum Dershowitz ◽  
Roni Shweka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cairo Genizah

Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cairo Genizah ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

The study of medieval Judaism was revolutionized by the late S. D. Goitein with A Mediterranean Society, his multilayered study of the medieval Jewish communities in Egypt based on the documents from the Cairo Genizah. For while previously the Genizah had been mined for important rabbinic documents and for the history of the philosophers and Geonim, Goitein's research sought to provide an account of the religion and life of all classes of society.

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