Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah : a Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, introduced, Transcribed, Translated, and Annotated, with Images
Leiden: Brill, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 329, (1)pp. Indices. Text in English with Hebrew transcriptions of the selected texts. Green boards lettered in white, with a red spine label. Illustrated with numerous color photos of the original leaves. A fine, as new copy.
"Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah [dating back to the tenth century], which sets a new tone for future studies, consists of a selection of transcribed and translated Genizah fragments that contain some of the earliest known texts of rabbinic prayers. Reif describes in detail the physical makeup of each manuscript and assesses the manner in which the scribe has tackled the matter of recording a preferred version. He then places the prayer texts included in the manuscript within the context of Jewish liturgical history, explaining the degree to which they were innovative and whether they established precedents to be followed in later prayer-books. He offers specialists and more general readers a fresh understanding of the historical, theological, linguistic, and social factors that may have motivated adjustments to their liturgical formulations" (OCLC)
Contents: T-S G1.78: Naṭronai's Hundred Blessings -- T-S NS 123.12: Preliminary Readings and Prayers -- T-S H18.4: Poetic 'Amida -- Or.1080 3.2: 'Amida with Strong Emotions -- Add.3160.2: Evening Prayer and Bibliographical Crux -- T-S NS 123.92: Weekday and Shabbat Eves Compared -- T-S 8H16.23: Differences on Friday Evenings -- T-S NS 299.150: Polemical Reading against Karaites -- Add.3159.4: Shabbat Beginnings and Endings -- T-S 6H6.6: folio 4: Qaddish in Strange Form -- T-S NS 235.171: Musaf for Rosh Ḥodesh -- Add.3160.9: Rosh Ḥodesh to Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S 10H3.4 and T-S NS 235.157a & 157b: Prayers for Rosh Ḥodesh and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S 8H23.2: Prayers for Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S H8.79: Verses and Musaf fot Rosh Ha-Shana -- T-S NS 155.1: Ways to Start Yom Kippur -- T-S 10H4.1: Shemini 'Aṣeret's Own Rite -- T-S H2.124: Special Qiddush for Pesaḥ -- T-S H2.152: Ma Nishtana in Five -- Add.3159.13: Haggada before Meal -- T-S 8H24.3: Prayers for Pesaḥ -- T-S NS 89.36: Additions for Ḥanukka -- T-S NS 196.66: Hafṭara Blessings -- Or.1080 15.4 & T-S AS 110.359: Unusual Grace -- T-S NS 123.31: Instructions in Aramaic (OCLC)
Part of the series of "Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, volume 7" and "Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval tome 66." Fine. Item #51631
ISBN: 9789004313316
Price: $250.00