Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars: An Anthology of Historical, Linguistic and Liturgical Essays

Stefan C. Reif

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Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars

An Anthology of Historical, Linguistic and Liturgical Essays

Stefan C. Reif

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Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 564 | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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The introduction offers some thoughts on each of the four areas covered by the essays and draws some broad conclusions. Studies of the history of manuscripts and of their acquisition demonstrate their impact on research into Jewish studies and on modern Judaism’s understanding of itself. What emerges from liturgical studies here included is how important it is not only to analyze texts but also to identify overall historical, geographical and cultural developments. Prayer may have been used as an educational tool and, in turn, influenced educational ideas and agendas. The liturgical themes that occur and recur over the centuries (and especially in the talmudic and medieval periods) reflect the ideological and theological notions that lie behind prayer texts and the variant forms that they take. Some common prayers are seen to include concepts of time, views of creation, attitudes to non-Jews and definitions of Jewish peoplehood. The appreciations of some leading modern scholars of Jewish studies set them in their educational, historical and religious contexts and indicate what they had in common as experts in scientific Jewish studies as well as what remained individual about their lives, research publications and achievements.

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Stefan C. Reif, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, England.

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

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December 30, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111577647

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December 30, 2024

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9783111575391

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8

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363

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2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111577647

eBook ISBN: 9783111577647

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Judaism; Hebrew; manuscripts; liturgy.

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Scholars in the field of Jewish studies, history, theology, liturgy, paleography and medieval studies.

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