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This book tells the largely unfamiliar story of intellectual transmission, cultural exchange and practical cooperation, social interaction, and religious toleration between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim as well as Christian world during the late Middle Ages. The story is composed of ten narratives, each of which brings to light a different aspect of Jewish life in a non-Jewish medieval society. The book is beautifully illustrated with images from the Hebrew holdings at the Bodleian Library, one of the largest and most important collections of Hebrew manuscripts worldwide. They range from Christian codex fragments as early as the 3rd century to a copy of Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah signed by Maimonides himself.

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Piet van Boxel is Hebraica and Judaica Curator at the Bodleian Library, Librarian and Academic Director at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Fellow in Early Judaism and Origins of Christianity. Sabine Arndt studied Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. She is lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen and preparing her PhD thesis on medieval Hebrew astronomy.

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