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Problems with Prayers

Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy

Stefan C Reif author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:16th Nov '06

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Much of the primary research summarized here relates to Cambridge Genizah manuscripts, a thousand-year-old source that testifies to liturgical (as well, of course, as non-liturgical) developments that greatly predate other source material. When the research is concerned with pre-Genizah history, the Genizah evidence is also relevant since the historian of religious ideas must ultimately decide how to date, characterize, and conceptualize its contents and how to explain where they vary significantly from what became, or is regarded (rightly or wrongly) as having become, the standard rabbinic liturgy sanctioned by the Iraqi Jewish authorities from the ninth to the eleventh century.

"Stefan Reif's contributions to the study of Jewish liturgy have been enormously valuable."Ruth Langer in: Journal of Jewish Studies 2.LX/2009

ISBN: 9783110190915

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 726g

378 pages

Reprint 2011