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21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. sigla. . Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 1 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 32 of the printed edition

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. bulla. . The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 7 May 2021. The Jacques (or Jack) Mosseri Collection arrived in Cambridge in 2006. After Schechter

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ramla. . ‘We have seen the mountains shaking’: Fatimid humanitarian relief and the earthquake of 1033.. By Ben Outhwaite on Tue 7 Feb 2023. In December 1033 CE – late afternoon on

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. staff. . Throwback Thursday: the Genizah Research Unit in 2010.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 24 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is a photo of the Genizah Unit's staff as it

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. audio. . Radio: Introducing the Genizah on Radio Maria.. By Sarah Sykes on Sat 28 Oct 2023. In recent weeks Genizah researchers recorded two radio interviews about the collection and its

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Japan. . Q&A Wednesday: Genizah Studies in Japan, with Hideharu Shimada and Amir Ashur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee, Haru Shimada, and Amir Ashur on Wed 27 Oct 2021. Haru, what are you

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Jesus. . Q&A Wednesday: Toledot Yeshu – insult or entertainment? With Miriam Goldstein.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Miriam Goldstein on Wed 20 Oct 2021. Miriam, what are you working

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dairy. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among the

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Safed. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 31 Mar 2024. The Genizah has preserved only a few glimpses of the life of the influential qabbalist Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, the Ari – הארי ז׳׳ל,

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Qurʾan. . Book: Points of Contact, by Nick Posegay.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 7 Jan 2022. Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. widow. . A Millennium of Jewish Women’s Voices.. By Sarah Bunin Benor and Abby Graham on Wed 2 Nov 2022. Historically, most well-known documents in Jewish languages have been penned by

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hebron. . Throwback Thursday: Egyptian Help to the Holy Land.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 29 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 23 of the printed edition

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Egypt. . Q&A Wednesday: Tales of Cambridge collectors, with Catherine Ansorge.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Catherine Ansorge on Wed 19 Oct 2022. Catherine, what are you working on at

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dowry. . Q&A Wednesday: The value of small things, with Oded Zinger.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Oded Zinger on Wed 14 Jul 2021. Oded, what are you working on at the moment? I’m

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. trade. . Q&A Wednesday: Flax, tax and trade hacks, with Lorenzo Bondioli.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Lorenzo Bondioli on Wed 3 Nov 2021. Lorenzo, what are you working on at the moment?

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Women. . A Millennium of Jewish Women’s Voices.. By Sarah Bunin Benor and Abby Graham on Wed 2 Nov 2022. Historically, most well-known documents in Jewish languages have been penned by

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Coptic. . 'Coptic' numerals and Genizah studies.. By Magdalen M. Connolly on Wed 2 Jun 2021. It has long been customary in both Genizah studies and Arabic codicology to describe the

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Fustat. . Q&A Wednesday: a Genizah Street View with Moshe Yagur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Moshe Yagur on Wed 21 Jul 2021. Hi Moshe, what are you working on at the moment? In my new

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yannai. . Palimpsests, recycled manuscripts, are the focus of ‘Ghost Words: Reading the Past’, Cambridge University Library’s current major exhibition.. By Ben Outhwaite on Wed 12

21 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. travel. . Pirates of the Genizaaaar!. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it was a calculated risk, but quite a considerable one. You