Origins and early history: late antiquity
Under early Islam: the period of the Geonim and the geniza
The birkat haminim in Europe of the High Middle Ages
Living with censorship?: early modern realities
The modern period: changes by choice to the text
Appendix 1. Geniza texts of the birkat haminim
Appendix 2. Evidence for the birkat haminim in the pre-Sephardized rites of the Muslim world
Appendix 3. Uncensored medieval European texts of the birkat haminim
Appendix 4. Censored texts of the birkat haminim, 1550 to the present
Appendix 5. Texts of the liberal movements.
