This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
EAN: 9789004108868
COUNTRY: Netherlands
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PUBLISHED BY: Brill
DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-11-01
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GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / General
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Palestine, Egypt, CE period up to c 1500, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology: family and relationships, Middle Eastern history, African history: pre-colonial period, Social and cultural history, Judaism
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Ph.D. (1995) in Hebrew, Cambridge University (UK) is at present Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. Her research interests concern linguistic and historical aspects of Cairo Geniza manuscripts, as well as Hebrew linguistic thought in Western and Oriental traditions.
