Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars: An Anthology of Historical, Linguistic and Liturgical Essays

Contents
Introduction
A Jewish Manuscripts
1 Some Thoughts on Hebrew Manuscripts and their Significance
2 Has More than a Century of Genizah Research Adjusted Jewish Notions of Scholarship, History and Identity?
3 Late Prayer Books of the Ashkenazi, French, Sefardi and Italian Rites: A Tentative and Comparative Analysis
4 Some First Editions of Genizah Manuscripts of Ben Sira: Approaches and Reproaches
5 A New Edition and Translation of Cambridge Genizah Manuscript T-S Misc. 24.137.10a
B Prayer Developments
6 The Hebrew Language as a Source of Ritual and Practice
7 How did Jewish Prayer in the Medieval Islamic World Differ from its Equivalent in Christian Countries
8 Liturgy as an Educational Process in Talmudic and Medieval Judaism
9 Medieval Jewish Liturgy as Religious Education
C Liturgical Notions
10 Time Factors in Early Rabbinic Religiosity
11 The Work of Creation in Early Rabbinic Prayers and Benedictions
12 Viewing the Other: Attitudes towards Non-Jews in Medieval Jewish Prayer
13 The Notion of the Nation: How Hebrew Terminology Has Adjusted to Changing Circumstances
D Jewish Scholars
14 How a Jewish Scribe in Early Modern Poland Attempted to Alter a Hebrew Linguistic Register
15 A Fresh Look at Adolf Neubauer (1832–1906) as Scholar, Librarian and Jewish Personality
16 M. H. Segal (1876–1968) and his Abiding Interest in Ben Sira
17 A Scholar’s Scholar: Naphtali Wieder, 1905–2001
18 Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (1904–1991): Hebraic and Judaic Studies from Heilbronn to Cambridge
Index of sources
Index of names
Indexes of subjects, rites and prayers, and places