Hebrew Poetry from Late Antiquity

Liturgical Poems of Yehudah. Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary
Critical Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-11216-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Hebrew, Band 43, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums

The discovery of the Genizah manuscipt collection is nothing less than a revolution for the knowledge of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. One of the main results of one hundred years of Genizah research is the rediscovery of Hebrew liturgical poetry which shed much light on various aspects of Jewish studies. For the last half century it has been almost comonplace to discover new poems, unknown poets, novel uses of poetry and unfamiliar poetic versions of familiar prose texts within liturgical settings being revealed among the manuscripts and manuscript fragments. The products of the composers and reciters of synagogue poetry convincingly demonstrate the importance of poetry in Jewish worship and communal life. The major corpora of Palestinian liturgical poetry bear evidence to the prolific literary activity of a number of famous poets who laid the foundations for the development of Hebrew poetry in later periods: Yossi ben Yossi, Yannai, Simon bar Megas, Elazar birabbi Kilir and Yohanan ha-Kohen. One of these mostly Byzantine-Jewish 'melodists' was Yehudah who composed a cycle of poems in accordance with the reading tradition of the Pentateuch and Prophets on the sabbath. This study presents Yehudah's oeuvre with commentaries and deals with its historical and literary context in four introductory chapters. The edition is complemented by indices and a bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bekkum, Wout van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete

Über Autor(innen)

Wout Jac. Van Bekkum, Ph.D. (1988), University of Groningen, teaches Post-Biblical Hebrew in the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Groningen. He is also Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Amsterdam. He has been involved in the research of Hebrew religious poetry since the late 1970s. His publications include two editions of a medieval Hebrew Alexander Romance and articles on Hebrew linguistics and Jewish exegesis.