
Crossing Borders
Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Bodleian Library (Publisher)
Published on 17. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-85124-313-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book tells the largely unfamiliar story of intellectual transmission, cultural exchange and practical cooperation, social interaction, and religious toleration between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim as well as Christian world during the late Middle Ages. The story is composed of ten narratives, each of which brings to light a different aspect of Jewish life in a non-Jewish medieval society. The book is beautifully illustrated with images from the Hebrew holdings at the Bodleian Library, one of the largest and most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts worldwide. They range from Christian codex fragments as early as the 3rd century to a copy of Moses Maimonides' Mishneh Torah signed by Maimonides himself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
With flaps
Illustrations
80 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 184 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85124-313-6 (9781851243136)
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Persons
Piet van Boxel is Hebraica and Judaica Curator at the Bodleian Library, Librarian and Academic Director at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Fellow in Early Judaism and Origins of Christianity. Sabine Arndt studied Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. She is lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen and preparing her PhD thesis on medieval Hebrew astronomy.