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The Poet and the World

Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

By: Joachim Yeshaya,Elisabeth Hollender,Naoya Katsumata

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The Poet and the World

Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

By: Joachim Yeshaya,Elisabeth Hollender,Naoya Katsumata

A collection of seventeen essays on pre-modern Hebrew poetry in honor of Wout van Bekkum. The articles in this volume all seek to examine how the religious, cultural, and social context in which the poet functioned impacted on and is visible, either explicitly or more elliptically, in their poetical oeuvre. For this purposes a broad understanding of "world" has been accepted, including both the natural world and the constructed one (society, culture, language) as well as the spiritual and emotional world. History, a pillar of the man-made constructed world, has been used to determine the boundaries: from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, and—in instances where the topic connects to older traditions—to Early Modern Judaism, i.e. pre-modern Hebrew (and Aramaic) poetry. The articles in this volume, in the breadth of their temporal and spatial range and their multiplicity of approaches and methodologies, highlight the richness of contemporary scholarship on Hebrew poetry. The volume invites the reader to engage with this astonishing body of poetry, while providing a glimpse into the world of the payṭanim, and the cultures and societies from which they drew their ininspiration and to which they made such important contributions.

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348

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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ISBN 10

3110599236

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9783110599237

Seder Avodah for the Day of Atonement by Shelomoh Suleiman Al-Sinjari

By: Shelomo Suleiman Al-Sanjary,Naoya Katsumata

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Seder Avodah for the Day of Atonement by Shelomoh Suleiman Al-Sinjari

By: Shelomo Suleiman Al-Sanjary,Naoya Katsumata

This book contains a critical edition, an English translation, and a detailed commentary of two lengthy Hebrew liturgical poems for the Day of Atonement (called Seder Avodah ) that were composed by a ninth- or tenth-century Jewish poet who apparently lived in Palestine or its environs, Shelomoh Suleiman Al-Sinjari. The first part of the Seder Avodah narrates the creation of the world and the history of the people of Israel from the perspective of the sins that they have committed, while its second part describes, in detail, the ritual service of a high priest (Aaron and his sons) in the temple on the Day of Atonement.

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244

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161497325

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9783161497322

Hebrew Style in the Liturgical Poetry of Shmuel HaShlishi

By: Naoya Katsumata

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Hebrew Style in the Liturgical Poetry of Shmuel HaShlishi

By: Naoya Katsumata

Shmuel ben Hoshana, the most important Hebrew liturgical poet (paytan) in the final stage of the flowering of the Eretz-Israeli piyyut, came of age in the latter third of the tenth century. He was active in the academy of Eretz Israel, and reached the status of the third ("HaShlishi") in the assembly, after the gaon and the av bet din. This volume examines the Hebrew style of this paytan according to some 650 Genizah fragments, which contain elements of his wide-ranging oeuvre (orthography and phonetics, morphology, syntax, sentences, vocabulary, themes and motifs). Understanding the style of Shmuel HaShlishi is critical to our understanding of the creative activity of the paytanim of the final period of the flowering of the Eretz-Israeli piyyut. His style serves as a link between the Eretz-Israeli style of the early paytanim and the new style that would emerge in Spain.

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