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2 unusual facts about Cairo Geniza


Cairo Geniza

Cities mentioned range from Samarkand in Central Asia to Seville and Sijilmasa, Morocco to the west; from Aden north to Constantinople; Europe not only is represented by the Mediterranean port cities of Narbonne, Marseilles, Genoa and Venice, but even Kiev and Rouen are occasionally mentioned.

Monieux

The evidence of this attack by Crusaders on the community is indicated through the discovery of a manuscript in the Cairo Geniza.


Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr.

During his doctoral studies Patteson had developed an interest in the first century book, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, Prior to 1964 the only extant Hebrew text of this book was known from the Cairo Geniza collection.


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