Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin
Published on 20. August 2007
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-59333-701-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains contributions, in English and Hebrew, on the following topics: Biblical criticism, Medieval Biblical lexicography, Classical and Post-Classical piyyut, Medieval Hebrew poetry and science, Judeo-Arabic poetry and epistolography, Classical Arabic poetry and prose, and the history of Jewish Studies in America.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59333-701-8 (9781593337018)
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Jonathan P Decter is Assistant Professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. His research interests include Hebrew literature in the medieval Islamic World, Judeo-Arabic literature, and Iberian Jewry. Michael Rand is a graduate of the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine. His main field of interest is Hebrew philology, in particular the interaction of grammar and poetics in Classical piyyut.