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Jewish prayer texts from the Cairo Genizah

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Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah , which sets a new tone for future studies, consists of a selection of transcribed and translated Genizah fragments that contain some of the earliest known texts of rabbinic prayers. Reif describes in detail the physical makeup of each manuscript and assesses the manner in which the scribe has tackled the matter of recording a preferred version. He then places the prayer texts included in the manuscript within the context of Jewish liturgical history, explaining the degree to which they were innovative and whether they established precedents to be followed in later prayer-books. He offers specialists and more general readers a fresh understanding of the historical, theological, linguistic, and social factors that may have motivated adjustments to their liturgical formulations.

Title Jewish prayer texts from the Cairo Genizah : a selection of manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, introduced, transcribed, translated, and annotated, with images / by Stefan C. Reif.
Publisher Leiden, [Netherlands]
Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill
Creation Date 2016
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Front Matter -- Introduction -- T-S G1.78: Naṭronai’s Hundred Blessings -- T-S NS 123.12: Preliminary Readings and Prayers -- T-S H18.4, P1–4: Poetic ʿAmida -- Or.1080 3.2: ʿAmida with Strong Emotions -- Add.3160.2: Evening Prayer and Bibliographical Crux -- T-S NS 123.92: Weekday and Shabbat Eves Compared -- T-S 8H16.23: Differences on Friday Evenings -- T-S NS 299.150: Polemical Reading against Karaites -- Add.3159.4: Shabbat Beginnings and Endings -- T-S 6H6.6, folio 4: Qaddish in Strange Form -- T-S NS 235.171: Musaf for Rosh Ḥodesh -- Add.3160.9: Rosh Ḥodesh to Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S 10H3.4 and T-S NS 235.157a and 157b: Prayers for Rosh Ḥodesh and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S 8H23.2: Prayers for Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S H8.79: Verses and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S NS 155.1: Ways to Start Yom Kippur -- T-S 10H4.1: Shemini ʿAṣeret’s Own Rite -- T-S H2.124: Special Qiddush for Pesaḥ -- T-S H2.152: Ma Nishtana in Five -- Add.3159.13: Haggada before Meal -- T-S 8H24.3: Prayers for Pesaḥ -- T-S NS 89.36: Additions for Ḥanukka -- T-S NS 196.66: Hafṭara Blessings -- Or.1080 15.4 and T-S AS 110.359: Unusual Grace -- T-S NS 123.31: Instructions in Aramaic -- List of Works Cited and Abbreviations -- Indexes.
Series Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 0169-815X
Tome LXVI
Cambridge Genizah Studies Series
Volume 7
Extent 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010719781505171
MARC RECORDS
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Genizah fragments [journal] : the newsletter of Cambridge University's Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library.
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The written word remains : the archive and the achievement : articles in honour of Professor Stefan C. Reif, February, 2004 / edited by Shulie Reif.
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