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Sacred TreasureThe Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic 1st Edition

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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Jewish Lights; 1 edition (October 1, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1580234313
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580234313
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
An excellent overview of an important treasure that people should know about
By Israel Drazin TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 8, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Three discoveries of documents during the past 120 years, two in the 1940s, revolutionized the understanding of Jewish and Christian history. Scholars may differ on which of the three is most important and which comes in second, but there is no dispute that the discoveries are significant.

One is the Dead Sea discoveries. These are hundreds of documents hidden in caves in Qumran, near the Dead Sea in Israel, by Essenes, a sect of very ascetic Jews who no longer exist. Qumran was destroyed in 67 CE just before the Romans demolished the Jewish Temple in 70 CE and exiled many but not all Jews from their homeland. They were a people who considered themselves pious; they separated from women and insisted on frequent washings. They wanted to preserve their library, so they hid their books in jars and buried them in caves. These books, found in the 1940s, describe their ideology, strivings, fears, hopes, and their antagonism to the rest of Jewry and the Temple. They speak about the messiah they expected to arrive shortly to save them. The library also contains copies of other books, including parts of all of the Hebrew Bible, except for the book of Esther. These books reveal new information of ancient Jewry and the time of Jesus. In fact, many scholars feel certain that John the Baptist was a member of this group or, at a minimum, was influenced by them, and he, in turn, they say, influenced Jesus.

The second is the Nag Hammadi library found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945. These are Gnostic Christian documents. They contain Gospels, accounts of the early life of Jesus that are radically different than the currently accepted canon.Read more ›
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Loved the book, even though Glickman is my brother
By L.G. on November 14, 2010
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OK, so Rabbi Mark Glickman is my older brother. OK, so I was acknowledged in the book. OK, so my review may be a bit skewed. However, always eager to contribute to an already healthy and loving sibling rivalry, I read this book with an especially critical eye, ready and willing to share with my older brother how I thought his first book was an atrocious mess.

Foiled, once again!

Mark has written a beautiful book about his love for history, his love for the Jewish people, and his love for the written word. Supported by a framework of solid research and scholarship, Mark has given us a wonderful gift.

Through the past 100 years, scholars around the world have studied the documents discovered in the Cairo Genizah. They have researched the writings, they have established institutions to preserve the materials, and they have used what they have learned as the basis for several scholarly articles and books.

For seemingly the first time, though, Mark tells the story behind the documents. He tells how they got to the Genizah, how the exciting story of how they were discovered (I had never heard the word "Giblews" before!), and what has happened to them since. He talks of visiting the Genizah itself, he talks of going to the Genizah research library at Cambridge University and he talks of looking at actual Genizah documents with his son, literally continuing the living chain of Jewish history.

This is a beautiful book, and even though Mark is my big brother, I highly recommend this to all who have an interest in adventure and history...you will not be disappointed.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Great history book
By Michael Strong on November 9, 2010
Format: Hardcover
My main question when I first heard about the Cairo Genizah was: How is it that I never heard of this before? How come we all know about the Dead Sea Scrolls -- but nobody knows about the Cairo Genizah, which has hundreds of thousands of documents and provides a window into hundreds of years of jewish life in Egypt, going back over a millenium -- and even includes a Dead Sea Scroll? The oldest fragment of Talmud? etc etc Glickman does a great job telling the fascinating and important story both of the contents of the Genizah and the discovery of the Genizah itself, with profiles of Rabbi Solomon Schechter and others involved in the history, right up to the present day. While he touches on decades of scholarly work, the book is accessible enough for a general reader, and brings to light an incredible collection of materials that scholars will continue to work over for decades. Maybe someone will figure out how to make it into a movie -- because it's a pretty amazing collection of stuff. The individual items (a recipe, a song, letters, divorce documents, philosophical reflections) are what really bring it to life.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
great read
By Michael Stiffman on December 21, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Reading this book is like sitting listening to a great storyteller. Mark Glickman writes like he is speaking to you in person. The reader can literally hear his voice. He doesn't write this like a history but more like an exciting drama that is unfolding. He makes you feel the excitement each step along the way. Who knew that intellectual discovery could be this exciting.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A Facinating Story and Great Read
By AJM on December 19, 2010
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Rabbi Glickman's book is simply excellent. He engages you in a fascinating story of how discarded documents and scraps of paper -- found in a room the size of a small garage -- reveal how Jewish communities lived, prayed, worked, and studied over a thousand years ago. No matter your religion, you finish this book with a better understanding of the Jewish people: why language, learning, and the written word are so essential to them; how a forgotten yet vital link exists between Judaism and Islam; how Jewish religion developed over the past thousand years.

And Rabbi Glickman knows how to write. Most of us would not consider a book about archivists and historians highly engaging, especially in an age of docu-dramas and the History Channel. Yet we begin to grasp the excitement and tension that academics feel from assembling history, like a jigsaw puzzle, from sections of text and itty bitty scraps of paper.

Quite simply, if you're interested in the Jewish people, if you're interested in what makes historians and academics tick, if you're interested in a good read, get this book.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Five Stars

Cannot recommend this book highly enough. Forwarded on to my rabbi after finishing and he gives is GLOWING review.

Published 15 days ago by MM
a gripper that won't let go

Awesome book.
A definite must buy for anyone investigating the sources of the scriptures.
Packed with living historical information rather than dry data.

Published 6 months ago by mtn. theologian
Enjoyable read if you're interested in the history of it ...

Enjoyable read if you're interested in the history of it. Not a page turner, but interesting. After reading hundreds of pages of history of the discovery, I became weary to... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Harold Koller
Five Stars

Easy to read and fact filled narrative.

Published 8 months ago by Skin Doc
Genizah adventure.

Personal account brings it alive.

Published 9 months ago by Linda's Lookout
Dustbin (full) of history

I knew a little bit about the Cairo Genizah – mostly that it contained a vast treasure of medieval Jewish and Arabic documents that found their way to Cambridge University around... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Matt Young
Five Stars

great

Published 11 months ago by dave
The book reads like a mystery

Very interesting. I got lucky.. after reading the book, I got to hear Rabbi Glickman speak in Carmel Valley. The book reads like a mystery!

Published 14 months ago by Victoria Davis
This book reads like the best mystery story

This book reads like the best mystery story. A must read for anyone interested in the history of the Jews in Egypt and the relationship with Arabs (Muslims). Read more

Published 15 months ago by Friend
OK

a fascinating subject that deserves a more scholarly study. An OK introduction. Rabbi Glickman is just a bit over-enthusiastic.

Published 16 months ago by Rabbit the Reader

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