Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza : legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine
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Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza : legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine
（Études sur le judaïsme médiéval / dirigées par G. Vajda, t. 20）
Brill, 1998
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English and Hebrew
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-498) and indexes
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Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general.
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