Sacred trash
Subtitle: the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza
By: Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole
Contributors: Cole, Peter; Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jewish encounters; Jewish encounters
Publisher: Nextbook; Schocken
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780805242584
Subjects: Cairo Genizah; History; Judaism; Jews; Sources
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-[284]).
Table of contents: title: Hidden wisdom; title: Serpents and secrets; title: All Sirach now; title: Into Egypt; title: Sorting; title: Palimpsests; title: That nothing be lost; title: A gallery of heretics; title: Pieces of the Spanish puzzle; title: A Mediterranean society.