European Genizah

European Genizah
Author: Andreas Lehnardt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004427929

This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz and Jerusalem, and presents new discoveries of binding fragments in several European libraries and archives and abroad. It presents newly discovered texts with unknown Jewish writings from the Middle Ages and analyses fragments of well-known texts, such as textual witnesses of Midrashim. One chapter overviews recent discoveries in certain collections, some of them far beyond the geographical horizon of the original project, but certainly all of European origin. Other chapters study palaeographical and codicological issues of manuscript fragments and Ashkenazic inscriptions. A final article refers to the beginnings of scholarly interest in Hebrew binding fragments in Germany and sheds light on the part played by Christian Hebraists in its development.

Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy

Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy
Author: Mauro Perani
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004470999

The book represents the largest treasure trove of fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts found in book-bindings in Italian libraries and archives. It presents a complete bibliography and several articles by the leading scholars in the field bringing to light a large number of new discoveries.

"Genizat Germania" - Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context

Author: Andreas Lehnardt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047443845

“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, including some rare Talmudic, Midrashic and liturgical fragments. The new discoveries both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe have broadened the knowledge of Jewish literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. This volume collects the papers of international scholars which cover recent discoveries in Germany, the “European Genizah” or fragments found in Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Austria, the approaches of similar projects in Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as an extensive bibliography.

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004358404

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.

Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature
Author: Ronit Nikolsky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004469192

This book explores the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, an important Jewish homiletic genre prevailing in late antiquity and early Byzantine Palestine. Originating in the culture of the study house, and addressing the synagogue audience, this literature allows us to follow the reception of the rabbinic culture in the wider Jewish society.

The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture

The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
Author: Monika Amsler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009297333

A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.

Books within Books

Books within Books
Author: Andreas Lehnardt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004258507

Books within Books presents some recent findings and research projects on the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts discovered in the bindings of other manuscripts and early printed books across Europe. This is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew binding fragments presenting current scholarship and its international scope. From the contemporary perspective, the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts preserved until today, through their numbers (estimated 30,000 fragments, so more than double of the number of the known Hebrew volumes produced in medieval Europe ), the texts they carry (some of them have been previously unknown), the insights into book making techniques and finally their economic impact, are an unprecedented source for our knowledge of the Hebrew book culture and literacy as well as the economic and intellectual exchanges between the Jewish minority and their non-Jewish neighbours.

A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths

A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
Author: Nadia Vidro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004277056

A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.

Black and Slave

Black and Slave
Author: David M. Goldenberg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110522470

The series Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) publishes monographs and collected volumes which explore the reception history of the Bible in a wide variety of academic and cultural contexts. Closely linked to the multi-volume project Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), this book series is a publication platform for works which cover the broad field of reception history of the Bible in various religious traditions, historical periods, and cultural fields. Volumes in this series aim to present the material of reception processes or to develop methodological discussions in more detail, enabling authors and readers to more deeply engage and understand the dynamics of biblical reception in a wide variety of academic fields. Further information on „The Bible and Its Reception“.