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Preface; Abbreviations and Transliteration; 1. Introductory remarks:semitic scholarship at Cambridge; 2. Some new sources for the study of thetext and language of Saadya's translation of the Pentateuch intoJudaeo-Arabic; 3. Traces of Judah Ibn Quraysh in manuscript, particularly inGenizah fragments; 4. Some Genizah fragments on the duty of the nations tokeep the mosaic law; 5. On a fragment of the oldest Judaeo-Arabic Bibletranslation extant; 6. Saadya Gaon on the limits of liturgical flexibility;7. A hymn of praise and a letter of supplication from the Cairo Genizah; 8."Words beautifully put": Hebrew versus Arabic in tenth-century Jewishliterature; 9. Mukhtasar (an abridgement of) Hidayat al-Qari: a grammaticaltreatise discovered in the Genizah; 10. Daniel Ibn al-Mashita's Taqwimal-Adyan: new light on the oriental phase of The Maimonidean controversy;11. Responsa of Abraham Maimonides on a debtor's travails; 12. Arabiselements in the Hebrew of the Byzantine Karaites; 13. Medical texts inJudaeo-Arabic from the Genizah; 15. Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf and Nestorha-komer: the earliest Arabic and Hebrew Jewish anti-Christian polemics; 16.The lexical element in David Alfasi's dictionary definitions; 17. An IraqiJudaeo-Arabic version of Ma'aseh Avraham: some literary and linguisticfeatures; 18. The genealogy of Sefo (Swjar) ben Elifaz: the importance of aGenizah fragment for Josippon's history; 19. Taqdir and its counterparts inmediaeval Judaeo-Arabic; 20. Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf: a case study inpolemical literature; 21. The magical texts in the Cairo Genizah; Indexes.