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From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 16
Series: - Cambridge Genizah Studies, Volume: 99/16
- Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, Volume: 99/16
This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts, archival history, and the story of the Cairo Genizah collections at the University of Cambridge. Together, they demonstrate the achievements of GRU alumni in advancing the field of Genizah Studies for more than five decades.
Nick Posegay, PhD (Cambridge 2021) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He has written numerous articles on medieval Middle Eastern History and an award-winning monograph,
Points of Contact (2021).
Magdalen M. Connolly, PhD (Cambridge 2018) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Near & Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich. She has published extensively in Arabic historical linguistics and Genizah Studies and is the author of Pre-Modern Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters: A Study in Variation (Brill, 2024).
Ben Outhwaite, PhD (Cambridge 2000) has been head of Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit since 2006 with responsibility for the ca. 200,000 manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah held there. He has published widely on Jewish manuscripts, medieval history, and the Hebrew language.
Magdalen M. Connolly, PhD (Cambridge 2018) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Near & Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich. She has published extensively in Arabic historical linguistics and Genizah Studies and is the author of Pre-Modern Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters: A Study in Variation (Brill, 2024).
Ben Outhwaite, PhD (Cambridge 2000) has been head of Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit since 2006 with responsibility for the ca. 200,000 manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah held there. He has published widely on Jewish manuscripts, medieval history, and the Hebrew language.
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1 The Genizah Research Unit at 50
Melonie Schmierer-Lee
2 New Maimonidean Documents
Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum
3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. Jacob
Kim Phillips
4 Two Fragments of Saadya’s Tafsīr by Samuel b. Jacob
Ronny Vollandt
5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of Antiochus
Siam Bhayro
6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist Circle
Paul Fenton
7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava Meṣia
Julia G. Krivoruchko
8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?
Avihai Shivtiel
9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-Tilmīḏ’s Aqrābāḏīn Found in the Cairo Genizah
Leigh Chipman
10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch Collection
Geoffrey Khan
11 Qiṣṣat al-Ğumǧuma: An Arabic-script Version of ‘The Story of the Skull’ in the Cairo Genizah Collections
Magdalen M. Connolly
12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
Mohamed Ahmed
13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn Sāqawayh?
Nadia Vidro
14 Three Examples of a New ‘Mental Time’ in Karaite Exegetical Sources
Meira Polliack
15 “To Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gaza”: Margaret Gibson’s 1896 Expedition from Cairo to Jerusalem
Catherine Ansorge
16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Miner’s Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden Death
Nick Posegay
17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to Cambridge
Rebecca J.W. Jefferson
18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973–1985
Stefan C. Reif
Index
Contributors
1 The Genizah Research Unit at 50
Melonie Schmierer-Lee
2 New Maimonidean Documents
Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum
3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. Jacob
Kim Phillips
4 Two Fragments of Saadya’s Tafsīr by Samuel b. Jacob
Ronny Vollandt
5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of Antiochus
Siam Bhayro
6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist Circle
Paul Fenton
7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava Meṣia
Julia G. Krivoruchko
8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?
Avihai Shivtiel
9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-Tilmīḏ’s Aqrābāḏīn Found in the Cairo Genizah
Leigh Chipman
10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch Collection
Geoffrey Khan
11 Qiṣṣat al-Ğumǧuma: An Arabic-script Version of ‘The Story of the Skull’ in the Cairo Genizah Collections
Magdalen M. Connolly
12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
Mohamed Ahmed
13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn Sāqawayh?
Nadia Vidro
14 Three Examples of a New ‘Mental Time’ in Karaite Exegetical Sources
Meira Polliack
15 “To Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gaza”: Margaret Gibson’s 1896 Expedition from Cairo to Jerusalem
Catherine Ansorge
16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Miner’s Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden Death
Nick Posegay
17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to Cambridge
Rebecca J.W. Jefferson
18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973–1985
Stefan C. Reif
Index
Undergraduate/Postgraduate students and academics with interests in Cairo Genizah Studies, archival histories, manuscripts, library science, Hebrew lingusitics, Arabic lingusitics, Jewish History, Islamic History, and the University of Cambridge.