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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 paytanim, and the cultures and societies from which
they drew their ininspiration and to which they made such important
contributions.
In medieval Ashkenaz piyyut commentary was a popular genre that
consisted of 'open texts' that continued to be edited by almost
each copyist. Although some early commentators can be identified,
it is mainly compilers that are responsible for the transmitted
form of text. Based on an ample corpus of Ashkenazic commentaries
the study provides a taxonomy of commentary elements, including
linguistic explanations, treatment of hypotexts, and medieval
elements, and describes their use by different commentators and
compilers. It also analyses the main techniques of compilation and
the various ways they were employed by compilers. Different types
of commentaries are described that target diverse audiences by
using varied sets of commentary elements and compilatory
techniques. Several commentaries are edited to illustrate the
different commentary types.
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Judaism II - Literature (Hardcover)
Michael Tilly, Burton L. Visotzky; Contributions by Emanuel Tov, Michael Tilly, Gunter Stemberger, …
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