Seride Teshuvot: A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa Fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Collection Cambridge University Library
Leiden: Brill, 2012. First edition. Quarto. xxiv, 409, (1), 45, (1)pp. Text in English and Hebrew. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. Illustrated with over 100 photographs of Responsa fragments in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic with Hebrew translation, and facing pages of explanatory text in Hebrew and English. A fine, as new copy.
"The resources invested in this catalogue are impressive, and it is a welcome addition to the few existing catalogues of Genizah manuscripts."
Pinchas Roth, Tikvah Scholar at the NYU Tikvah Center
Studying responsa fragments from the Cairo Genizah, one travels through a virtual time machine of Jewish history, discovering the rich facets of private and public Jewish medieval life. From the cradle to the coffin, responsa regulate domestic affairs and reflect all manner of human merits, convictions and flaws. Many responsa contain real-life accounts of household intrigue, infidelity, solemn oaths, and sibling rivalry. Seride Teshuvot is a descriptive catalogue of responsa fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library. This book includes descriptions of seventy-five fragments from the classical Genizah Period (10th–13th century) until the late Genizah Period (18th century), on matters of halakha, and biblical and talmudic exegesis. These responsa offer fertile ground for research in all manner of disciplines, from the medieval interpretation of Jewish law to the wider social, cultural and legal history of the Jewish communities of the Mediterranean and Near East.
Volume 53 in the Brill series "Etudes sur la Judaisme Medieval." (EJM). Also Volume 3 in the "Cambridge Genizah Studies Series" Item #52306
ISBN: 9789004223950
Price: $200.00