11 The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. A Jewish Manuscripts
5. 1 Some Thoughts on Hebrew Manuscripts and their Significance 11
6. 2 Has More than a Century of Genizah Research Adjusted Jewish Notions of Scholarship, History and Identity? 23
7. 3 Late Prayer Books of the Ashkenazi, French, Sefardi and Italian Rites: A Tentative and Comparative Analysis 45
8. 4 Some First Editions of Genizah Manuscripts of Ben Sira: Approaches and Reproaches 69
9. 5 A New Edition and Translation of Cambridge Genizah Manuscript T-S Misc. 24.137.10a 95
10. B Prayer Developments
11. 6 The Hebrew Language as a Source of Ritual and Practice 111
12. 7 How did Jewish Prayer in the Medieval Islamic World Differ from its Equivalent in Christian Countries 127
13. 8 Liturgy as an Educational Process in Talmudic and Medieval Judaism 145
14. 9 Medieval Jewish Liturgy as Religious Education 161
15. C Liturgical Notions
16. 10 Time Factors in Early Rabbinic Religiosity 185
17. 11 The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions 203
18. 12 Viewing the Other: Attitudes towards Non-Jews in Medieval Jewish Prayer 221
19. 13 The Notion of the Nation: How Hebrew Terminology Has Adjusted to Changing Circumstances 241
20. D Jewish Scholars
21. 14 How a Jewish Scribe in Early Modern Poland Attempted to Alter a Hebrew Linguistic Register 259
22. 15 A Fresh Look at Adolf Neubauer (1832–1906) as Scholar, Librarian and Jewish Personality 273
23. 16 M. H. Segal (1876–1968) and his Abiding Interest in Ben Sira 295
24. 17 A Scholar’s Scholar: Naphtali Wieder, 1905–2001 313
25. 18 Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (1904–1991): Hebraic and Judaic Studies from Heilbronn to Cambridge 331
26. Index of sources 347
27. Index of names 351
28. Indexes of subjects, rites and prayers, and places 357