Camilla Adang

Omar Hamdan

Bruno Chiesa

Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg

Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled

The insertion in the Biblical text of the signs for marking vowels and accents has been the result of a centuries-long process. We possess, however, only very few documents relating to the introduction and the early history of Hebrew vocalization systems. This book provides every student and scholar interested in Biblical and textual studies with a complete collection of those documents. It attempts to analyze the available evidence basing on a critical approach, with detailed footnotes and a reproduction of the texts themselves.

The Indirect Sources

The Emergence of Hebrew Biblical Pointing

Wilfrid Lockwood

Ya'qub al-Qirqisani, «the greatest Karaite mind of the first half of the tenth century» (Leon Nemoy), opens his opus magnum, the Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib (The Book of Lights and Watchtowers), with a survey of Jewish sects and Christianity which represents the most reliable (and sometimes the unique) source of our knowledge of the developments of Jewish religious history from ancient times to the author's own day. After an evaluation of Qirqisani's work as an historiographic source, this book presents an English translation of the masterly introduction premised by Harkavy to the editio princeps of Qirqisani's text (this essay, written in Russian, has remained inaccessible to most scholars) together with a complete English translation of Kitab al-anwar, Book I.

A Translation of "Kitāb Al-anwār," Book I : with Two Introductory Essays

Yaʻqūb Al-Qirqisānī on Jewish Sects and Christianity

Bruno Chiesa

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