The poet and the world : Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / edited by Joachim Yeshaya, Elisabeth Hollender, and Naoya Katsumata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeshaya, Joachim, Author.

Contributor:

Hollender, Elisabeth, 1965- editor.

Yeshaya, Joachim J. M. S., editor.

Katsumata, Naoya, editor.

Series:

Studia Judaica

Studia Judaica ; 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew poetry--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry.

Jewish poetry--History and criticism.

Jewish poetry.

Bekkum, Wout Jac. van.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 payṭanim, and the cultures and societies from which they drew their ininspiration and to which they made such important contributions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction (including Biography of Wout van Bekkum)

Bibliography of Wout van Bekkum

Ibn Abitur between Fusṭāṭ and Córdoba: Two Jewish Cultural Centers at the Turn of the Eleventh Century

From West to East: The Poems of Samuel ha-Nagid in the Cairo Geniza

Israel Najara: A Beloved and Popular Poet

Scenery of the Land of Israel or "Scenes" from the House of Study: Descriptions of the Land of Israel in Early Liturgical Poetry

Elʿazar berabbi Qillir: A Late Antique Poet and his Cultural Legacy

Poems for Ploni: On the Use and Reuse of Praise

Poets (Almost) Without An Audience? Ashkenazic Piyyuṭim in Local Manuscripts

A Karaite Ḥakham Kolel and a Hebrew Poet: Zeraḥ ben Nathan in a New World

No Translation Needed: Hebrew in Two Samaritan Aramaic Hymns

Hebrew Piyyuṭ and its Byzantine Greek Influences: The Case of the Inverted Construct Form

Love and the Description of the Beloved in Moses Ibn Ezra's Girdle Poems

The Debate Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra: An Inquiry into the Genre and Definition of the Corpus

Spanish Elements in Italian Hebrew Poetry

Death in Aramaic: The Funeral Poems of Shirat Bene Maʿaraḇa in Context

Out of Your Senses: The Baroque World of Moses Zacuto's Tofteh ʿArukh

The Anger of a Poet: Judah Ibn Shabbetai and the Depiction of Evil in Words of Curse and Excommunication

Emotional Discourse and Terms for Body and Soul in Hebrew Elegiac and Panegyric Poems by Joseph ben Tanḥum Yerushalmi

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110594423

3110594420

9783110599237

3110599236

OCLC:

1114809545