Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza

Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza / Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole.

Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Adina
Other Authors: Cole, Peter, 1957-, Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nextbook : Schocken, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Jewish encounters.
Subjects:
Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 > Sources.
Jews > History > 70-1789 > Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Cairo Genizah.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hidden wisdom
  • Serpents and secrets
  • All Sirach now
  • Into Egypt
  • Sorting
  • Palimpsests
  • That nothing be lost
  • A gallery of heretics
  • Pieces of the Spanish puzzle
  • A Mediterranean society.

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