Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month
About this collection
A particularly interesting fragment from the last month, unearthed by the research team or one of our Genizah colleagues worldwide:
- The strange Hebrew of a blessing for the Prophets: T-S K6.113 [2018 Oct]
- Six Centuries of Arab Poets Transmitted in a Booklet of Judaeo-Arabic Poetry [2018 Sep]
- A Young Syriac Pupil in the Cairo Genizah: Or.1081 2.75.30 [2018 Aug]
- Reunited At Last: T-S K10.4 and Bodl. MS. Heb. c. 13/25 [2018 Jul]
- A Muslim Genizah in Damascus [2018 Jun]
- Mishnah with Judeo-Arabic Translation: T-S E1.124 [2018 May]
- Mourning in Late Antiquity: T-S NS 148.58 [2018 Apr]
- Judaeo-Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: T-S Ar.37.127 [2018 Mar]
- What happens on pilgrimage…: T-S 8J22.25 [2018 Feb]
- On autographs of Saadya Gaon attested in the Genizah: CUL Or.1080 1.85 and T-S 8D.1 [2018 Jan]
- T-S Ar. 51.86a: Shi‘ite and Karaite – a Fatimid melange [2017 Dec]
- The first owners of the Leningrad Codex: T-S 10J30.7 [2017 Nov]
- Early Karaite Halakha according to Karaite Commentaries to the Bible (T-S 16.316) [2017 Oct]
- A Popular Calendar [2017 Sep]
- T-S 18J3.9 the Ramla Earthquake: for this relief much thanks [2017 Aug]
- The rotuli corpus of the medieval midrash Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh [2017 Jul]
- Two New Responsa of Moses Maimonides [2017 Apr]
- Writing Lines: T-S D1.108 and the Song of Moses [2017 Mar]
- Plants on Maimonides’ bookshelf: T-S Ar.41.41 [2017 Jan]
- The Long Art: T-S AS 144.331 [2016 Dec]
- On the identification and biography of the ‘poet for all seasons’ and his contact with Maimonides: T-S 10K8.3, T-S 8K13.8 and T-S NS 264.98 [2016 Nov]
- Learning Torah and What is Connected to It: T-S Ar.18(1).16 [2016 Oct]
- The Pursuit of Happiness: T-S Ar.44.201 [2016 Sep]
- Who Wrote the Bible? [2016 Aug]
- Moses ben Judah - a 15th century bibliophile and gourmand [2016 Jun]
- What women want (most)? A feminist reading of the Talmud from the Middle Ages: T-S Ar.18(2).20 [2016 May]
- Reuniting a Tax-farmer’s Archive [2016 Apr]
- Samuel ben Jacob: the Leningrad Codex B19a and T-S 10J5.15 [2016 Jan]
- The earliest known fragment of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s Book on Numbness: T-S K6.194 [2015 Sep]
- Protect me for (the tie of) blood and milk that is between us': TS 10J9.13 and Or. 1080 3.46 [2015 Aug]
- A petition against an anti-social child: T-S Ar.40.3 [2015 Jun]
- A cautionary tale concerning the shipment of ‘sanitary napkins’ from 11th-century Tunis: T-S K3.36 [2015 Apr]
- Did the Jewish academies of Sura and Pumbedita hold original commentaries to the Talmud? T-S F9.41 [2015 Mar]
- Medieval Chapbooks – Early collecting of Rabbi Judah ha-Levi’s poetry: T-S 13J24.13 and T-S K25.138 [2015 Feb]
- The language of women: L-G Arabic 2.129 [2015 Jan]
- A Dream Request for Ṣedaqah ben Maqmalyah: Mosseri VI.5 [2014 Dec]
- Eli ben Yehoshua al-Lāḏiqī: a newly identified copyist of liturgical manuscripts [2014 Nov]
- Add.6463(e)3416: Breathing the 'dust of centuries' [2014 Oct]
- T-S 12.530: A day in the life of a court scribe [2014 Sep]
- Go to the house of the English': 19th-century Genizah merchants [2014 May]
Recent Submissions
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Six Centuries of Arab Poets Transmitted in a Booklet of Judaeo-Arabic Poetry
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2018-09-01) -
The strange Hebrew of a blessing for the Prophets: T-S K6.113
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2018-10-01) -
Mishnah with Judeo-Arabic Translation: T-S E1.124
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2018-05-01) -
A Muslim Genizah in Damascus
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2018-06-01)
