Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza: Legal Tradition and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and PalestineThis 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 Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book.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. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 8 |
ON KARAITE SCRIPTURALISM AND THE KETUBBA | 15 |
CHAPTER TWO KARAITE MARRIAGE DOCUMENTS IN THE CAIRO GENIZA | 29 |
CHAPTER THREE | 39 |
CHAPTER FOUR CODICOLOGY AND PALAEOGRAPHY | 69 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 87 |
What kind of Hebrew? | 97 |
Vocabulary | 107 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE GROOMS DECLARATION | 167 |
CHAPTER TWELVE MARRIAGE PAYMENTS | 193 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE BRIDES OBLIGATIONS AND HER AGENT | 205 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE DOWRY | 219 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE GROOMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DOWRY | 239 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS | 247 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CONCLUDING FORMULAE | 257 |
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS | 263 |
FORMULAE AND CUSTOMS | 115 |
CHAPTER SEVEN FORMULATION | 129 |
CHAPTER EIGHT INTRODUCTORY FORMULAE | 135 |
CHAPTER NINE THE KARAITE NESĪIM | 143 |
THE DATE AND PLACE OF THE MARRIAGE | 157 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 483 |
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Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza: Legal Tradition and ... Judith Olszowy-Schlanger No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
11th century abbreviation Abraham according agent al-Qirqisānī Aleph Aleph and lamed Anan Anan ben David Arabic Aramaic Assaf attested Babylonian Babylonian-style Bible bride Cairo Geniza clause custom daughter David declaration deed of betrothal dinars dowry Egypt elders Fatimid Firk formularies Friedman Fustat Gaon Geniza documents Geonic Goitein groom ha-Kohen ha-Levi Hai Gaon Hebrew holiness husband Israel Jehuda Jerusalem Jewish Karaism Karaite community Karaite ketubbot Karaite marriage documents ketubba Kitāb lamed are written letter Lord Mann manuscripts marriage formula marriage payment mediaeval mentioned Mishna mohar Moses nāsī non-marriage Oral Torah Palestinian plene preserved Rabbanite Ramle recto Sahl scribe sexual intercourse so-and-so Solomon stipulated Talmud Textual notes tradition trousseau Tyre verso virgin wife witnesses Yefet אלהים אלף אשתו ביום בכל בן בת דרכמונים הבתולה הזה הזקן הזקנים החתן הנערה והוא יי ישראל לה לו לי מהם מן משה נפשו עלי פל פלוני