The Cairo Geniza

Title page......Page 4
PREFACE......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
PART I - General Introduction......Page 16
1. THE GENIZA......Page 18
2. THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS......Page 28
3. THE KARAITES......Page 32
4. THE KHAZARS......Page 43
5. THE LITURGICAL POETRY OF THE JEWS......Page 49
PART II - The Hebrew Text of the Bible\r......Page 64
I. INTRODUCTION. THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE PENTATEUCH USED BY THE SAMARITANS......Page 66
2. THE BABYLONIAN TEXT OF THE BIBLE......Page 72
3. THE PALESTINIAN PUNCTUATION......Page 81
4. THE APPROXIMATE DATES OF TEXTS WITH BABYLONIAN AND PALESTINIAN PUNCTUATION......Page 87
5. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE TIBERIAN MASORA......Page 90
6. MOSHE BEN ASHER AND HIS SONG OF THE VINE......Page 97
7. SA\'ADYA AND THE MASORETES OF TIBERIAS......Page 101
8. MOSHE BEN ASHER AND HIS CODEX OF THE PROPHETS\r......Page 106
9. PSALM cxix AND MOSHE BEN ASHER......Page 112
10. THE BEN ASHER TEXT OF THE BIBLE......Page 120
11. CHR. D. GINSBURG AND SELIGMAN BAER......Page 125
12. FELIX PRATENSIS......Page 135
13. THE COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOT......Page 139
14. THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS......Page 144
15. THE BIBLIA HEBRAICA......Page 146
16.THE BEN ASHER BIBLE OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY......Page 153
17. THE TEXT OF THE ARABIC KORAN......Page 156
18. THE HEBREW TEXT OF THE BIBLE BEFORE THE TIBERIAN MASORETES......Page 164
19. THE PRONUNCIATION OF HEBREW BY THE SAMARITANS......Page 168
20. THE II COLUMN OF THE HEXAPLA\r......Page 172
21. THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE GUTTURALS......Page 179
22. THE FINAL VOWELS IN THE MASORETIC TEXT......Page 186
23. THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE bgdkpt......Page 194
24.CONCLUSIONS......Page 199
PART III - The Translations of the Bible......Page 204
1. THE TARGUM ONKELOS......Page 206
2. THE TARGUM OF THE PROPHETS......Page 210
3. THE MIDRASH BOOK FROM  QUMRAN I......Page 213
4. PALESTINIAN ARAMAIC......Page 215
5. THE WENSINCK MATERIAL......Page 218
6. EXOD. XXII 4,5 IN THE TARGUM\r......Page 220
1. THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS......Page 224
2. THE BIBLE COMMISSION IN ALEXANDRIA......Page 229
3. THE PROLOGUE OF BEN SIRA......Page 230
4. THE CAIRO PAPYRUS FOUAD 266......Page 233
5. THE MANCHESTER PAPYRUS GREEK 458......Page 235
6. FRAGMENTS FROM QUMRAN 4......Page 238
7. THE LEATHER SCROLL OF THE GREEK MINOR PROPHETS\r......Page 241
8. THE TEXT OF LUCIAN\r......Page 243
9. PAUL DE LAGARDE......Page 250
10. ORIGEN......Page 254
11. PHILO\'S QUOTATIONS FROM THE BIBLE......Page 262
12. BIBLE QUOTATIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT......Page 264
13. THEODOTION......Page 267
14. THE COPTIC VERSIONS......Page 273
15. EARLIER TEXTS OF THE GREEK BIBLE......Page 276
1. ITS RELATION TO THE HEBREW AND GREEK BIBLE......Page 280
2. THE JEWS IN ADIABENE......Page 285
3. PESHITTA AND THE PALESTINIAN TARGUM......Page 287
4. THE CHRONICLE OFARBELA......Page 289
5. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY IN EDESSA......Page 291
6. THE DOCTRINE OF ADDAI......Page 295
7. TATIAN AND THE DIATESSARON......Page 298
8. THE OLD SYRIAC GOSPELS......Page 300
9. C. C. TORREY\'S \"DOCUMENTS OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH\"\r......Page 302
10. BURKITT ON THE SINAI PALIMPSEST......Page 304
11. THE \'WESTERN\' READINGS OF THE DIATESSARON......Page 305
12. THE SYRIAC DIATESSARON......Page 308
13. THE GREEK AND THE LATIN DIATESSARON......Page 309
14. THE REVISED TEXT OF THE SYRIAC GOSPELS......Page 311
15. THE ARABIC DIATESSARON......Page 312
16. THE OXFORD MS AND AL-GHAZALI......Page 316
17. THE COPTS AND THE ARABIC DIATESSARON......Page 319
(JUSTINIAN\'S) NOVELLA 146 FROM THE YEAR 553......Page 330
THE PRONUNCIATION OF HEBREW BY THE SAMARITANS as recorded at Nablus in 1917 by HELLMUT RITTER and ARTHUR SCHAADE......Page 333
A PALESTINIAN / TIBERIAN TEXT OF THE HEBREW BIBLE......Page 351
AL-FARRA\' (died A.D. 821) on Reading the Koran......Page 360
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 362
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 373
INDEX OF BIBLE QUOTATIONS......Page 382
PLATES......Page 386