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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
- Ãtudes 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 Libraryâs 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 Libraryâs 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
âMelonie Schmierer-Lee
2 New Maimonidean Documents
âAmir Ashur and Alan Elbaum
3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. Jacob
âKim Phillips
4 Two Fragments of Saadyaâs TafsÄ«r by Samuel b. Jacob
âRonny Vollandt
5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of Antiochus
âSiam Bhayro
6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist Circle
âPaul Fenton
7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava Meá¹£ia
âJulia G. Krivoruchko
8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?
âAvihai Shivtiel
9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-TilmÄ«á¸âs AqrÄbÄá¸Ä«n Found in the Cairo Genizah
âLeigh Chipman
10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch Collection
âGeoffrey Khan
11 Qiṣṣat al-Äumǧuma: An Arabic-script Version of âThe Story of the Skullâ in the Cairo Genizah Collections
âMagdalen M. Connolly
12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
âMohamed Ahmed
13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn SÄqawayh?
âNadia Vidro
14 Three Examples of a New âMental Timeâ in Karaite Exegetical Sources
âMeira Polliack
15 âTo Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gazaâ: Margaret Gibsonâs 1896 Expedition from Cairo to Jerusalem
âCatherine Ansorge
16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Minerâs Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden Death
âNick Posegay
17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to Cambridge
âRebecca J.W. Jefferson
18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973â1985
âStefan C. Reif
Index
Contributors
1 The Genizah Research Unit at 50
âMelonie Schmierer-Lee
2 New Maimonidean Documents
âAmir Ashur and Alan Elbaum
3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. Jacob
âKim Phillips
4 Two Fragments of Saadyaâs TafsÄ«r by Samuel b. Jacob
âRonny Vollandt
5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of Antiochus
âSiam Bhayro
6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist Circle
âPaul Fenton
7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava Meá¹£ia
âJulia G. Krivoruchko
8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?
âAvihai Shivtiel
9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-TilmÄ«á¸âs AqrÄbÄá¸Ä«n Found in the Cairo Genizah
âLeigh Chipman
10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch Collection
âGeoffrey Khan
11 Qiṣṣat al-Äumǧuma: An Arabic-script Version of âThe Story of the Skullâ in the Cairo Genizah Collections
âMagdalen M. Connolly
12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters
âMohamed Ahmed
13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn SÄqawayh?
âNadia Vidro
14 Three Examples of a New âMental Timeâ in Karaite Exegetical Sources
âMeira Polliack
15 âTo Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gazaâ: Margaret Gibsonâs 1896 Expedition from Cairo to Jerusalem
âCatherine Ansorge
16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Minerâs Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden Death
âNick Posegay
17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to Cambridge
âRebecca J.W. Jefferson
18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973â1985
âStefan 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.