Bulgaria's synagogue poets : the Kastoreans / by Leon J. Weinberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberger, Leon J.

Contributor:

Newlin, Nick.

Series:

Judaic studies series.

Judaic Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew poetry.

Hebrew literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

Critical ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscalossa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first in-depth study of three 11th- to 12th-century poets from Balkan Byzantium. Included are all of the known works by Moses b. Hiyya, Joseph b. Jacob Qalai, and Isaac b. Judah, collected from rare manuscripts and printed editions and from Geniza collections at Oxford and Cambridge. These works provide the evidence that the Balkan synagogue poets favored distinctive literary forms even as they show the strong influence of the Hispanic-Hebrew writers. Completing the volume are indexes of rabbinic, Aramaic, and payyetanic usages and tables of metonymical terms.

Contents:

Hebrew section

Introduction

The characteristics of the Kastorean prayer book

A. Kastorean beliefs and opinions

1. Practices in the month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance

2. On prayers to intermediaries

3. Messianic expectations and "return to Zion" movements

B. The influence of the Hispanic Hebrew poets on Kastorean prosody

C. Linguistic innovations

Notes to the introduction

Selections from the Kastorean poets

The uses of metonymy in Kastorean poetry

Index to the poems

Bibliography

English section.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-175) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8329-8

OCLC:

689995678