UID:
almahu_9949703186402882
Format:
1 online resource (xxix, 183 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004332430
Series Statement:
Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 43
Uniform Title:
Works. 1998
Content:
The discovery of the Genizah manuscipt collection is nothing less than a revolution for the knowledge of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. One of the main results of one hundred years of Genizah research is the rediscovery of Hebrew liturgical poetry which shed much light on various aspects of Jewish studies. For the last half century it has been almost comonplace to discover new poems, unknown poets, novel uses of poetry and unfamiliar poetic versions of familiar prose texts within liturgical settings being revealed among the manuscripts and manuscript fragments. The products of the composers and reciters of synagogue poetry convincingly demonstrate the importance of poetry in Jewish worship and communal life. The major corpora of Palestinian liturgical poetry bear evidence to the prolific literary activity of a number of famous poets who laid the foundations for the development of Hebrew poetry in later periods: Yossi ben Yossi, Yannai, Simon bar Megas, Elazar birabbi Kilir and Yohanan ha-Kohen. One of these mostly Byzantine-Jewish 'melodists' was Yehudah who composed a cycle of poems in accordance with the reading tradition of the Pentateuch and Prophets on the sabbath. This study presents Yehudah's oeuvre with commentaries and deals with its historical and literary context in four introductory chapters. The edition is complemented by indices and a bibliography.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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FOREWORD /
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INTRODUCTION /
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YEHUDAH IN THE STUDY OF PIYYUT /
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STRUCTURAL DEVICES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH /
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THE USE OF LITERARY SOURCES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH /
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LANGUAGE AND STYLE /
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THE EDITING OF THE MANUSCRIPTS /
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POEMS AND COMMENTARIES /
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GENESIS /
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FESTIVALS /
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POEMS OF UNCERTAIN ATTRIBUTION /
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INDICES /
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TABLE OF EPITHETS /
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INDEX OF EPITHETS /
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TABLE OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS /
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LIST OF PIYYUT OPENINGS /
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LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR REGULAR SABBATHS /
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LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES /
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ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS /
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Poems in Hebrew; introduction and commentary in English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hebrew Poetry from Late Antiquity: Liturgical Poems of Yehudah. Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1998, ISBN 9789004112162
Language:
Hebrew
Keywords:
Piyutim
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
