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.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 329 pages).
	text file
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and 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.
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Subject	Cambridge University Library.
	Cambridge University Library.
	British Library.
	British Library.
	Judaism -- Liturgy -- History and criticism.
	Judaism -- Liturgy.
	Cairo Genizah.
	Cairo Genizah.
	Manuscripts, Hebrew -- England -- Cambridge.
	Manuscripts, Hebrew.
	England -- Cambridge.
	Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic -- England -- Cambridge.
	Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Reif, Stefan C., 1944- Jewish prayer texts from the Cairo Genizah. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004313316 (DLC) 2015048066
ISBN	9789004313323 (electronic book)
	900431332X (electronic book)
	9789004313316 (hardcover alkaline paper)

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.

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