Hebrew Voices #191 – The Cairo Genizah: Part 3
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #191 – The Cairo Genizah: Part 3, Nehemia continues to discuss with the head of the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit how fragments from 1,000 years ago now scattered in libraries throughout the globe are … Continue reading →
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #191 - The Cairo Genizah: Part 3, Nehemia continues to discuss with the head of the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit how fragments from 1,000 years ago now scattered in libraries throughout the globe are reunited using technology and scholarly elbow grease. They also talk about the coming AI revolution that will change the face of Hebrew scholarship.
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Hebrew Voices #191 – The Cairo Genizah: Part 3
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Ben: And he really got seduced by the intimacy that comes from reading documents that were not intended for posterity. The letters were only ever intended to be read by one or two people, perhaps to be read out in the synagogue.
Nehemia: Yeah.
Ben: But not more than that. And yet here you are a thousand years later, and you’re reading about, “Why won’t you come home? Your daughter is pregnant. And everyone’s saying, ‘Where’s her father?’”
Nehemia: Wow. That’s pretty cool.
Nehemia: Shalom, this is Nehemia Gordon, welcome to Hebrew Voices. I’m here today with Dr. Ben Outhwaite, who is the head of the Genizah Research Unit at the University of Cambridge. He got his PhD here at the University of Cambridge. Thank you for joining the program.
Ben: Thanks very much for having me.
Nehemia: Alright, so, Solomon Schechter brings these boxes and shiploads of stuff back here to Cambridge, and he then has to catalog it.
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