Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza
legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine
by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
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 the 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 Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book.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.
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Karaites, Marriage (Karaite law), Sources, History, Cairo Genizah| Edition | Availability |
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Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza: legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine
1998, Brill
in English
9004108866 9789004108868
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Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza: Legal Tradition and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and Palestine (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)
November 1997, Brill Academic Publishers
Hardcover
in English
9004108866 9789004108868
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English and Hebrew.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-498) and indexes.
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