Cairo Geniza
The Cairo Geniza refers to the cache of about 300,000 documents found in the attic storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, located in Fustat (in Old Cairo), the capital city of Egypt during the seventh-tenth centuries C.E. The creation and preservation of the Cairo Geniza owes to the long-lived Jewish...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 2022, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 8-10 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Biblical archaeology
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| Further subjects: | B
HEBREW letter writing
B YIDDISH language |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | The Cairo Geniza refers to the cache of about 300,000 documents found in the attic storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, located in Fustat (in Old Cairo), the capital city of Egypt during the seventh-tenth centuries C.E. The creation and preservation of the Cairo Geniza owes to the long-lived Jewish habit of consigning disused […] |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review
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