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Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza: Legal Traditions and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and Palestine

By Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1997
ISBN
9004108866, 9789004108868
Language
englishhebrew
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19652122 bytes)
Series
Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval
Pages
522\554
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-06-17 18:01:15

Description

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 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 Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book.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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