The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533493545)

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.

Author: George Foot Moore
ISBN-10: 1533493545
ISBN-13: 9781533493545
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2016
Pages: 46
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d