EUROPEAN SEMINAR ON ADVANCED JEWISH STUDIES

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications to participate in residential workshops at Yarnton
Manor taking place from January to June 2011. Successful applicants will be working with eminent scholars in the same field.

Recipients of an ESAJS Fellowship will be provided with self-catering accommodation on the Yarnton Manor estate and
will receive a stipend of £750 per calendar month of tenure.

The Project to be undertaken in 2011 is outlined below:

 

PROJECT 3

THE MATERIAL TEXTS OF THE GENIZAH COLLECTION AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY: A NEW APPROACH TO GENIZAH RESEARCH

Project Leader: Dr Piet van Boxel

The Genizah research project was conceived with the intention of bringing together specialists in Hebrew codicology and paleography, and experts in various subjects of Jewish history and tradition preserved in the Cairo Genizah in order to examine the material text of a selected number of Genizah fragments in the Bodleian Library. The purpose of the project is to establish a new method of classifying Genizah material by means of the script, writing materials and peritextual features, thus aiming at both the reconstruction of the geo-cultural provenance and a more accurate dating of the fragments.

Further information on this project may be downloaded here, together with details of the application procedure.

Genizah Project

Application form 2010-11

Application guidelines