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Author Reif, Stefan C., 1944- author, translator.

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
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 329 pages)
Series Cambridge Genizah studies series ; volume 7
Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; tome LXVI
Cambridge Genizah studies series ; v. 7.
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 66
Contents 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2016)
Subject Cambridge University Library.
British Library.
SUBJECT British Library fast
Cambridge University Library fast
Subject Judaism -- Liturgy -- History and criticism
Cairo Genizah.
Manuscripts, Hebrew -- England -- Cambridge
Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic -- England -- Cambridge
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Cairo Genizah
Judaism -- Liturgy
Manuscripts, Hebrew
Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic
England -- Cambridge
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015049378
ISBN 9789004313323
900431332X