The Poet and the World: Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

Joachim Yeshaya; Elisabeth Hollender; Naoya Katsumata

Published by De Gruyter 2019

The Poet and the World

Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

Joachim Yeshaya , Elisabeth Hollender and Naoya Katsumata

Volume 107 in the series Studia Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599237

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About this book

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.

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Joachim Yeshaya, Leuven, Belgium, Elisabeth Hollender, Frankfurt, Germany, Naoya Katsumata, Kyoto, Japan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction (including Biography of Wout van Bekkum) Joachim Yeshaya, Elisabeth Hollender and Naoya Katsumata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Bibliography of Wout van Bekkum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part 1. The Poet and the Poem Moving in the World
Ibn Abitur between Fusṭāṭ and Córdoba: Two Jewish Cultural Centers at the Turn of the Eleventh Century Joseph Yahalom and Naoya Katsumata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
From West to East: The Poems of Samuel ha-Nagid in the Cairo Geniza Michael Rand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Israel Najara: A Beloved and Popular Poet Tova Beeri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Scenery of the Land of Israel or “Scenes” from the House of Study: Descriptions of the Land of Israel in Early Liturgical Poetry Shulamit Elizur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part 2. The Poet and the World of Men
Elʿazar berabbi Qillir: A Late Antique Poet and his Cultural Legacy Ophir Münz-Manor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Poems for Ploni: On the Use and Reuse of Praise Jonathan Decter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Poets (Almost) Without An Audience? Ashkenazic Piyyuṭim in Local Manuscripts Elisabeth Hollender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
A Karaite Ḥakham Kolel and a Hebrew Poet: Zeraḥ ben Nathan in a New World Riikka Tuori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Part 3. The Poet and the World of Words
No Translation Needed: Hebrew in Two Samaritan Aramaic Hymns Laura S. Lieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Hebrew Piyyuṭ and its Byzantine Greek Influences: The Case of the Inverted Construct Form Avi Shmidman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Love and the Description of the Beloved in Moses Ibn Ezra’s Girdle Poems Arie Schippers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
The Debate Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra: An Inquiry into the Genre and Definition of the Corpus Haviva Ishay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Spanish Elements in Italian Hebrew Poetry Dvora Bregman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Part 4. The Poet and the World of Emotions
Death in Aramaic: The Funeral Poems of Shirat Bene Maʿaraḇa in Context Michael D. Swartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Out of Your Senses: The Baroque World of Moses Zacuto’s Tofteh ʿArukh Michela Andreatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Anger of a Poet: Judah Ibn Shabbetai and the Depiction of Evil in Words of Curse and Excommunication Aurora Salvatierra Ossorio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Emotional Discourse and Terms for Body and Soul in Hebrew Elegiac and Panegyric Poems by Joseph ben Tanḥum Yerushalmi Joachim Yeshaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers in the fields of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Medieval Jewish Culture, Medieval Poetry.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 339
Keywords: Hebräische Literatur; Jüdische Kultur des Mittelalters; Mittelalterliche Dichtung

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Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110599237

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Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110600759