| The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect Contributor(s): Moore, George Foot (Author) |
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ISBN: 1533493545 ISBN-13: 9781533493545 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Religion | Judaism - History - Religion | History |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.17 lbs) 46 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect is a Jewish history classic by George Foot Moore. Among the Hebrew manuscripts recovered in 1896 from the Genizah of an old synagogue at Fostat, near Cairo, and now in the Cambridge University Library, England, were found eight leaves of a Hebrew manuscript which proved to be fragments of a book containing the teaching of a peculiar Jewish sect; a single leaf of a second manuscript, in part parallel to the first, in part supplementing it, was also discovered. These texts Professor Schechter has now published, with a translation and commentary, in the first volume of his Documents of Jewish Sectaries. The longer and older of the manuscripts is, in the opinion of the editor, probably of the tenth century; the other, of the eleventh or twelfth. |