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1	People of the Book more books like this by Geraldine Brooks add to wishlist In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, which was rescued during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts in ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Golden Haggadah more books like this by Bezalel Narkiss add to wishlist The "Golden Haggadah" is one of the outstanding works among the British Library's collection of Hebrew manuscripts. The Haggadah, a type of prayer book, is the order of service for the celebration of Passover-eve in the home. Traditionally, it is the most richly decorated and illuminated of all Jewish prayerbooks. Written and illuminated in ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.50!
3	The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition more books like this by Astrid B Beck (Editor), David N Freedman (Editor), James A Sanders (Editor) add to wishlist This beautiful scholar's edition of the oldest complete Hebrew Bible in the world--produced under the auspices of the University of Michigan in cooperation and consultation with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and the West Semitic Research Project--features a large format that includes 16 full-color illuminated carpet pages that capture in ... see all copies from $173.25! new only from $173.25!
4	Ketubbah: The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract more books like this by Shalom Sabar add to wishlist The custom of illuminating the traditional Jewish marriage contract, the kettubah , developed over the last four centuries into a rich and varied form of Jewish folk art. This book offers a broad selection from one of the outstanding collections of kettubot , representing Jewish communities from the Near East to Northern Europe. It focuses ... see all copies from $14.45! new only from $33.30! \| first editions
5	The Dead Sea Scrolls: Catalog of the Exhibition of Scrolls and Artifacts from the Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids more books like this by Ellen Middlebrook Herron (Editor), Emanuel Tov, James C VanderKam add to wishlist The "Dead Sea Scrolls" is the official catalog of the exhibition of scrolls and artifacts from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids. The scrolls and artifacts will be displayed February 16 though June 1 2003. The catalog will also feature original essays by Emanuel Tov, James VanderKam, Pnina ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.48! \| first editions
6	Planets, Potions, and Parchments more books like this by B Barry Levy add to wishlist Planets, Potions, and Parchments is a heavily illustrated and informative catalogue published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the same name. The exhibition, presented by the Jewish Public Library, runs from May to September at the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. Both catalogue and exhibition explore the important yet often neglected ... see all copies from $3.67! new only from $37.05! \| first editions
7	Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library more books like this by Shalom Sabar, Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum add to wishlist The illustrated ketubbah is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is, first of all, a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times. It is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wanderings. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $75.00! \| first editions
8	Qumran Cave 4: XVI: Psalms to Chronicles more books like this by Professor Frank Moore Cross, Jr., Joseph A Fitsmyer, Peter W Flint add to wishlist This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been considered the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts in the ... see all copies from $194.86! new only from $223.20!
9	Palestinian Vocalised Piyyut Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections more books like this by Cambridge University Press, Joseph Yahalom (Editor), S C Reif (Editor) add to wishlist In the Semitic languages the vowels are not part of the alphabet and each Semitic language has its special method of marking its particular vowel values. In the Hebrew of Late Antiquity, a supralinear method of doing this was first introduced after the Arabic conquest of Palestine in the seventh century. It was used mainly for liturgical purposes ... see all copies from $62.00! new only from $109.30! \| first editions
10	Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages more books like this by Colette Sirat, Nicholas de Lange (Editor) add to wishlist Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts themselves, how to study them, and the literary genres to which they belong. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive ... see all copies from $37.90! new only from $37.90! \| SVS
11	Early Karaite Grammatical Texts more books like this by Geoffrey Khan add to wishlist see all copies from $34.68! new only from $34.68! \| first editions
12	Qumran Cave 4: VIII: Parabiblical Texts, Part I more books like this by Harold Attridge, Torleif Elgvin, Jozef Milik add to wishlist This volume contains a collection of compositions from cave 4 at Qumran. These compositons, written during the Second Temple period, are linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes, or genre. Some of them present a reworking, rewriting, or paraphrase of biblical books. Of these texts, Reworked Pentateuch is probably closest to the ... see all copies from $138.60! new only from $289.96!
13 view cover	Qumran Cave 4: VI: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1 more books like this by Esther Eshel (Editor), Hannan Eshel (Editor), Carol Newsom (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains a collection of prayers, hymns, psalms, and liturgies from Cave 4 at Qumran. Among them, 4QShirot Olat HaShabbat ('Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice') was preserved also in a copy from Cave 11. The other compositions include 4QNon-Canonical Psalms, 4QBerakhot ('Blessings'), 4QApocryphal Psalm, and 4QPrayer for King Jonathan. This ... see all copies from $108.12! new only from $278.56!
14 view cover	Qumran Cave 4: XX: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2 more books like this by Bilhah Nitzan (Editor), Esther Chazon (Editor), Torleif Elgvin (Editor) add to wishlist This collection includes hymns, prayers, blessings, and other liturgical texts illuminating the poetry and worship experience of ancient Israel and especially of the community at Qumran. It is the second volume containing poetical and liturgical texts from Cave 4, and the largest groups of texts are those of Hodayot (4Q427433, 433a, 440) and ... see all copies from $124.00! new only from $124.00!
15	Qumran Cave 4: XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts more books like this by Devorah Dimant (Editor) add to wishlist This is the fourth and last volume of parabiblical texts from Qumran Cave 4 and reveals once again the interest in biblical themes characteristic of Second Temple period Judaism, exhibited in many of the Qumran compositions. It is devoted to a small group of texts showing the rewriting, in different ways, of two biblical prophetic books, Jeremiah ... see all copies from $198.77! new only from $198.77!
16	The Ashkenazi Haggadah : a Hebrew manuscript of the mid-15th century from the collections of the British Library more books like this by Joel ben Simeon, of Worms Eleazar ben Judah, David.David Goldstein add to wishlist "The Haggadah" - the text of the Seder ceremony of the Jewish Passover, with its evocation of the Jews' escape from Egypt - is in yearly use all over the world. During the Middle Ages, in the centres of Jewish culture in Europe, many illuminated Haggadot were produced. Once considered to be amongst the finest and held at the British Library in ... see all copies from $27.64! new only from $27.64!
17	Chosen: Philadelphia's Great Hebraica more books like this by David Stern add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $25.00!
18 view cover	Qumran Cave 11: II: 11q2-18, 11q20-31 more books like this by Eibert J C Tigchelaar, Adam S Van Der Woude, Florentino Garcia Martinez (Editor) add to wishlist Cave 11 at Qumran contained a number of very important and well-preserved manuscripts such as the Temple Scroll and the Palaeo-Leviticus Scroll. The large size of those scrolls necessitated their publication as individual volumes. This volume contains complete editions of the remainder of the Cave 11 manuscripts which include biblical scrolls such ... see all copies from $166.21! new only from $250.00!
19 view cover	Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image more books like this by Ilana Tahan add to wishlist The written word holds sacred value to Jewish people and this means that books have always played a central role in the development and transmission of their religion and culture. During the Middle Ages, the art of the book became the chief medium of artistic creativity for Jewish communities in Europe and the Near East. Today we have striking ... see all copies from $24.89! new only from $24.89! \| SVS
20	The Hebrew Book more books like this by Raphael Posner, Israel Ta-Shema add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions
21 view cover	Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library: A Description and Introduction more books like this by Stefan C Reif, Cambridge University Press add to wishlist For some five hundred years, Hebrew books have been counted among the treasures of the University of Cambridge, and Cambridge University Library's current holdings of Hebrew manuscripts (excluding its Genizah collections) are in excess of a thousand items. A wide range of Hebrew literature is represented, with substantial numbers in Bible, Bible ... see all copies from $148.59! new only from $148.59!
22 view cover	Ancient Scrolls from the Dead Sea: Photographs and Commentary on a Unique Collection of Scrolls more books like this by Miles Gerald Bradford, Brigham Young University College of Huma add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
23	The Ashkenazi Haggadah: A Hebrew Manuscript of the Mid-15th Century from the Collections of the British Library more books like this by David Goldstein, Of Worms Eleazar Ben Judah (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Qumran Grotte 4: XVIII: Textes Hebreux (4q521-4q528, 4q576-4q579) more books like this by Emile Puech (Editor), Mile Puech (Editor) add to wishlist In the spring of 1956, a comprehensive inventory of the manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 was prepared which established the manuscript assignments for each of the members of the first editorial team. The manuscripts numbered 4Q521-4Q579 were assigned to Jean Starcky. Unfortunately Pere Starcky died before publishing his allotment, which included ... see all copies from $100.91! new only from $213.43!
25	Hebrew Manuscripts: A Treasured Legacy more books like this by Binyamin Richler, Robert Brody, Abraham Shoshana add to wishlist see all copies from $24.24! new only from $24.99! \| first editions

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