Genizah Research After Ninety Years, the Case of Judaeo-Arabic Papers Read at the Third Congress of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies

This volume contains twenty-one studies of various aspects of Judaeo-Arabic, the language spoken by Jews living in the Muslim countries of the middle ages. Using mainly the manuscript treasures found in the depository (Genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, the essays, by an international group of scholars belonging to the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, not only deal with linguistic, literary and philosophical ideas of the Jews, but also touch on medicine, magic and relations with other religions.Blau, Joshua is the author of 'Genizah Research After Ninety Years, the Case of Judaeo-Arabic Papers Read at the Third Congress of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies' with ISBN 9780521417730 and ISBN 0521417732.