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Jews, Bible and Prayer
In his articles Stefan Reif’s articles have dealt with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared …
Judaism and Hebrew Prayer
A scholarly but readable guide to the history of Jewish prayer from biblical times to the modern period.
The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo
Recipient of the 2013 PROSE Awards Architecture & Urban Planning honorable mentionJust to the south of modern Cairo stands the historic enclave known as Old Cairo, which grew up in …
Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting
The discovery of Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira in the Cairo Genizah has shaped and transformed the interpretation of the book. It is argued here that a proper appreciation of the …
Cosmos and Creation
This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of …
Bouncing Back - and Forward
The tale of how a boy of working-class, immigrant Jewish parents in Edinburgh became a Cambridge scholar of international repute. Stefan Reif traces the numerous obstacles …
Death in Jewish Life
Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to …
Problems with Prayers
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 …
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians …
The Prayer Rites of Synagogal Worship and their Historical Development
Given Leopold Zunz’s difficult German style and the tight conciseness of his presentation, it is hardly surprising that no English translation of his Die Ritus (1859) has been …
The Cambridge Genizah Collections
This collection of original contributions by an international group of experts summarizes recent developments in Genizah research. Stefan Reif's overview of a century of work on …
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians …