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"Your voice like a ram's horn" : themes and texts in traditional Jewish preaching / Marc Saperstein.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM730.A3 S25 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saperstein, Marc.
- Series:
- Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 18.
- Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish preaching--History.
- Jewish preaching.
- Jewish sermons--History and criticism.
- Jewish sermons.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 522 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press ; West Orange, NJ : Distributed by Behrman House, [1996]
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. "Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn": Conceptions of Jewish Preaching
- Ch. 2. Preaching for Pesach
- Ch. 3. Jewish Typological Exegesis After Nahmanides
- Ch. 4. Inscribed for Life or Death?
- Ch. 5. Christians and Jews: Some Positive Images
- Ch. 6. Christians and Christianity in the Sermons of Jacob Anatoli
- Ch. 7. Sermons as Evidence for the Popularization of Philosophy in Fifteenth-Century Spain
- Ch. 8. Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview
- Ch. 9. The Sermon as Art Form: Structure in Morteira's Giv'at Sha'ul
- Ch. 10. Sermons and Jewish Society: The Case of Prague
- Ch. 11. War and Patriotism in Sermons to Central European Jews, 1756-1815
- Ch. 12. "Treatise for the Guidance of Preachers": A Newly Discovered Ars Praedicandi
- Ch. 13. "Make Vows and Pay Them": A Newly Discovered Confraternity Sermon from Spain
- Ch. 14. A Sermon on the 'Aqedah from the Generation of the Expulsion and Its Implications for 1391
- Ch. 15. A Spanish Rabbi on Repentance: Isaac Aboab's Manuscript Sermon for Shabbat Shuvah
- Ch. 16. The Hesped as Historical Record and Art-Form: Saul Levi Morteira's Eulogies for Dr. David Farar
- Ch. 17. "Their Words are Their Memorial": Saul Levi Morteira's Eulogy for Menasseh ben Israel
- Ch. 18. In Praise of an Anti-Jewish Empress: Ezekiel Landau's Eulogy for Maria Theresa.
- Notes:
- "An I. Edward Kiev Library Foundation book"--Ser. title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-505) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Scholarship, Winner, 1996
- ISBN:
- 0878204172
- 9780878204175
- OCLC:
- 33206422
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