Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza / Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole.
By: Hoffman, Adina
Contributor(s): Cole, Peter | Schechter, S. (Solomon)
Series: Jewish encountersPublisher: New York : Nextbook : Schocken, c2011.Description: 283 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780805242584; 0805242589Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 -- Sources | Jews -- History -- 70-1789 -- Sources | Cairo GenizahDDC classification: 296.09182/20902Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Egypt and Sudan | Shelves | HW.HOF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 54063000240625 |
Includes bibliography (p. [247]-[284]).
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.
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.
AESSO14, AES2014