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Cairo Geniza

By Recycling, a Medieval Jew Preserved a Major Work of Christian Bible Scholarship

The Hexapla in the Genizah.

Benjamin Kantor
March 27 2019 12:01AM

What Ordinary Bibles Looked Like in Medieval Egypt

Written from memory.

Ben Outhwaite
Feb. 5 2019 12:01AM

A Rare Translation of the Mishnah into Judeo-Arabic

From the Cairo Genizah.

David Wasserstein
June 8 2018 12:01AM

Was a Celebrated Manuscript of the Bible Written for a Karaite?

Hints from the Cairo Genizah.

Ben Outhwaite
Nov. 29 2017 12:01AM

A Lost Jewish Tradition about the Bible’s Authorship

Did Isaiah write the book of Isaiah?

Kim Phillips
Sept. 6 2016 12:01AM

The Latest Finds from a Medieval Afghan Jewish Archive

Silk Road merchants’ correspondence.

Nir Hasson
June 15 2016 12:01AM

A Medieval Jewish Scholar’s “Feminist” Reading of a Talmudic Passage

“There is nothing that satisfies her more than that you will listen to her.”

Zvi Stampfer
June 1 2016 12:01AM

Making Sense of the Cairo Geniza’s Arabic Documents

Overlooked in the frenzy over the Hebrew texts.

Marina Rustow
Oct. 15 2015 12:01AM

How Jewish Is the Book of Ben Sira?

It was left out of the Jewish Bible.

Michael Satlow
Oct. 8 2015 12:01AM