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Initial chapters locate his own work in the scholarship on memory and identity and on Jewish historical thinking; here Bell establishes that Jewish narrations of history were often exemplified in other genres of writing such as law codes, community ledges, legal decisions, responsa, and customs books.
This distinction is sharpened in responsa that talk about the hair on one's head being covered as opposed to the hair flowing over one's shoulders.
33 PJ5023 From the 1999 conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, held in Atlanta, Georgia, 12 selected and refereed papers discuss such topics as a mystical commentary on the Song of Songs in the hand of David Maimonides II, logistical and other otherworldly problems in Saadya, the betrothal of an adult woman by an agent in Geonic Responsa, an early Karaite grammatical treatise, and Jews in changing empires of medieval Islam.
 
 
 
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