Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts
Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 9
Published on 7. October 2016
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-90-04-33511-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays offers an inquiry into the complex interaction between exegesis and poetry that characterized medieval and early modern Karaite and Rabbanite treatment of the Bible in the Islamic world, the Byzantine Empire, and Christian Europe. Discussing a variety of topics that are usually associated with either exegesis or poetry in conjunction with the two fields, the authors analyze a wide array of interactions between biblical sources and their interpretive layers, whether in prose exegesis or in multiple forms of poetry and rhymed prose. Of particular relevance are mechanisms for the production and transmission of exegetical traditions, including the participation of Jewish poets in these processes, an issue that serves as a leitmotif throughout this collection.
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Language
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 244 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
600 gr
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978-90-04-33511-0 (9789004335110)
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Joachim Yeshaya, Ph.D. (2009), University of Groningen, is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven. He is the author of Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt (Brill, 2011) and Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer (Brill, 2014).
Elisabeth Hollender, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cologne, habilitation (2001), Duisburg University, is Professor of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on piyyut and piyyut commentary, including Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript (Brill, 2005).
Elisabeth Hollender, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cologne, habilitation (2001), Duisburg University, is Professor of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on piyyut and piyyut commentary, including Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript (Brill, 2005).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Transliteration of Arabic
Transliteration of Hebrew
Introduction
Part 1 From Jerusalem to Alexandria
Chapter 1 Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata, "Singing Songs about Songs": Biblical and Exegetical Interconnections in Three Hebrew Hymns for Yom Vayyosha? (the Seventh Day of Passover)
Chapter 2 Sivan Nir and Meira Polliack, "Many Beautiful Meanings Can Be Drawn from Such a Comparison": On the Medieval Interaction View of Biblical Metaphor
Part 2 From Granada to Sana?a
Chapter 3 Mordechai Cohen, "The Distinction of Creative Ability" (Fa?l al-ibda?): From Poetics to Legal Hermeneutics in Moses Ibn Ezra
Chapter 4 Haviva Ishay, The Biblical Exegesis of Abraham Ibn Ezra as a Hermeneutical Device: A Literary Riddle as a Case Study
Chapter 5 Adena Tanenbaum, The Uses of Scripture in Zechariah al-?ahiri's Sefer ha-musar
Part 3 From Constantinople to Candia
Chapter 6 Daniel J. Lasker, The Interplay of Poetry and Exegesis in Judah Hadassi's Eshkol ha-kofer
Chapter 7 Joachim Yeshaya, Aaron ben Joseph's Poem for Parashat Yitro Considered in Light of His Torah Commentary Sefer ha-mi??ar
Chapter 8 Saskia Doenitz, Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Karaite Exegetical Challenge
Part 4 From Istanbul to Trakai
Chapter 9 Philip Miller, The Methods of Judah Gibbor's Biblical Exegesis in Min?at Yehuda
Chapter 10 Riikka Tuori, "The One Who Defeats the Power of the Stars": Medieval Exegetics in Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Poetry
Chapter 11 Elisabeth Hollender, Berakha ben Joseph's Commentary on the Piyyu?im by Aaron ben Joseph
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Transliteration of Arabic
Transliteration of Hebrew
Introduction
Part 1 From Jerusalem to Alexandria
Chapter 1 Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata, "Singing Songs about Songs": Biblical and Exegetical Interconnections in Three Hebrew Hymns for Yom Vayyosha? (the Seventh Day of Passover)
Chapter 2 Sivan Nir and Meira Polliack, "Many Beautiful Meanings Can Be Drawn from Such a Comparison": On the Medieval Interaction View of Biblical Metaphor
Part 2 From Granada to Sana?a
Chapter 3 Mordechai Cohen, "The Distinction of Creative Ability" (Fa?l al-ibda?): From Poetics to Legal Hermeneutics in Moses Ibn Ezra
Chapter 4 Haviva Ishay, The Biblical Exegesis of Abraham Ibn Ezra as a Hermeneutical Device: A Literary Riddle as a Case Study
Chapter 5 Adena Tanenbaum, The Uses of Scripture in Zechariah al-?ahiri's Sefer ha-musar
Part 3 From Constantinople to Candia
Chapter 6 Daniel J. Lasker, The Interplay of Poetry and Exegesis in Judah Hadassi's Eshkol ha-kofer
Chapter 7 Joachim Yeshaya, Aaron ben Joseph's Poem for Parashat Yitro Considered in Light of His Torah Commentary Sefer ha-mi??ar
Chapter 8 Saskia Doenitz, Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Karaite Exegetical Challenge
Part 4 From Istanbul to Trakai
Chapter 9 Philip Miller, The Methods of Judah Gibbor's Biblical Exegesis in Min?at Yehuda
Chapter 10 Riikka Tuori, "The One Who Defeats the Power of the Stars": Medieval Exegetics in Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Poetry
Chapter 11 Elisabeth Hollender, Berakha ben Joseph's Commentary on the Piyyu?im by Aaron ben Joseph