JUST LIFE - Dr Ben Outhwaite - Jews and Christians, from Conversion to the Crusades
Part 5 in our Genizah series.
Jews and Christians, from Conversion to Crusades: discoveries in the medieval manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah’ How do we know that a symbolic slap was given to a Jewish elder at Easter in Toulouse Cathedral in the 10th century, that a Catholic monk, born Johannes in Oppido, Italy, became Obadiah the Proselyte in Egypt in the 12th, or that the knights of the First Crusade enriched themselves through the sale of Jewish books from Jerusalem? Because of manuscripts discovered in the Cairo Genizah! Dr Ben Outhwaite, from Cambridge University's Genizah Research Unit…
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