Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza : : legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine / / by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.

• Superior document: Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; 20
• VerfasserIn: Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, New York : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Acknowledgements /; List of Plates /; Introduction /; Chapter One On Karaite 'Scripturalism' and the Ketubba /; Chapter Two Karaite Marriage Documents in the Cairo Geniza /; Chapter Three Historical Background /; Chapter Four Codicology and Palaeography /; Chapter Five The Language of Karaite Marriage Documents /; Chapter Six The Karaite Marriage: Formulae and Customs /; Chapter Seven Formulation /; Chapter Eight Introductory Formulae /; Chapter Nine The Karaite Nesīim /; Chapter Ten The Setting: The Date and Place of the Marriage /; Chapter Eleven The Groom's Declaration /; Chapter Twelve Marriage Payments /; Chapter Thirteen The Bride's Obligations and Her Agent /; Chapter Fourteen The Dowry /; Chapter Fifteen The Groom's Responsibility for the Dowry and Special Provisions /; Chapter Sixteen Religious Obligations /; Chapter Seventeen Concluding Formulae /; General Conclusions /; Texts: N° 1 to 57 /; Abbreviations /; Bibliography /; Index of Manuscripts /; Index of Names in Karaite Marriage Documents /; Biblical Quotations in Karaite Marriage Documents /; Name and Subject Index /; Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-498) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004497536
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.

This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general.