Fortifications and the Synagogue: Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo - Hardcover

Fortifications and the Synagogue: The Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo book by Phyllis Lambert

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates bright and vivid. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, is probably best known in the West as the syna gogue in which the 'Cairo Geniza' was found an astonishingly rich store of ancient books, manuscripts, miscellaneous correspondence, business records, and other scraps dating back to the tenth century. The book describes the recent restoration of this ancient synagogue, which was built within the walls of the Roman Fortress of Babylon, as well as the historical and archaeological research essential to its preser- vation and to an understanding of the interrelationship of the religious communities which founded modern Cairo. The work is unprecedented in its comprehensive examination of the subject. It presents the first measured survey and photographic study of the fortress and the synagogue and the first thorough study of the Geniza manuscripts referring to the history of the medieval synagogue and its community. It also traces the history of the synagogue after the Geniza period, from the fifteenth century to the. Artikel-Nr. Batch-FM501-VG-11053

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