Problems with Prayers: Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy

by Stefan C. Reif

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110190915
• ISBN13: 9783110190915
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary