From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit

Nick Posegay, PhD (Cambridge 2021) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He has written numerous articles on medieval Middle Eastern History and an award-winning monograph, Points of Contact (2021). Magdalen M. Connolly, PhD (Cambridge 2018) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Near & Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich. She has published extensively in Arabic historical linguistics and Genizah Studies and is the author of Pre-Modern Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters: A Study in Variation (Brill, 2024). Ben Outhwaite, PhD (Cambridge 2000) has been head of Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit since 2006 with responsibility for the ca. 200,000 manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah held there. He has published widely on Jewish manuscripts, medieval history, and the Hebrew language.

• AcknowledgementsContributors1 The Genizah Research Unit at 50Melonie Schmierer-Lee2 New Maimonidean DocumentsAmir Ashur and Alan Elbaum3 More Genizah Bible Fragments Written by Samuel b. JacobKim Phillips4 Two Fragments of Saadya’s Tafsīr by Samuel b. JacobRonny Vollandt5 Two Hitherto Unpublished Bilingual (Jewish Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic) Genizah Fragments from the Scroll of AntiochusSiam Bhayro6 A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ʾAggadot from the Pietist CirclePaul Fenton7 Five Greek Glosses to Talmud Tractate Bava MeṣiaJulia G. Krivoruchko8 A Hidden Hoard in a Synagogue or a Church?Avihai Shivtiel9 Fragments of a Hitherto Unknown Judaeo-Arabic Transcription of Ibn al-Tilmīḏ’s Aqrābāḏīn Found in the Cairo GenizahLeigh Chipman10 An Arabic Document of Sale from Medieval Cairo Preserved in the Undigitised Firkovitch CollectionGeoffrey Khan11 Qiṣṣat al-Ğumǧuma: An Arabic-script Version of ‘The Story of the Skull’ in the Cairo Genizah CollectionsMagdalen M. Connolly12 Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew CharactersMohamed Ahmed13 How Many Refutations Did Saadya Gaon Write against Ibn Sāqawayh?Nadia Vidro14 Three Examples of a New ‘Mental Time’ in Karaite Exegetical SourcesMeira Polliack15 “To Hire Tents and Camels and Take the Desert Route by Way of Gaza”: Margaret Gibson’s 1896 Expedition from Cairo to JerusalemCatherine Ansorge16 Ernest James Worman and the Victorian Genizah: A Salt-Miner’s Tale of Romance, Tax Evasion, and Sudden DeathNick Posegay17 Thirteen Fragments of the Passover Haggadah: Tracing Their Exodus from Egypt to CambridgeRebecca J.W. Jefferson18 Senior Assistance for a Junior Initiative: S.D.Goitein and the Genizah Research Unit 1973–1985Stefan C. ReifIndex