Moreen Queen Esther’s Garden

An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3479-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

This anthology brings to English-language readers the riches of the Judaeo-Persian literary tradition produced by the Jewish community of Iran between the eighth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the translations were prepared specifically for this anthology from unpublished manuscripts. Extensive notes accompany each selection to clarify its meaning in Jewish and Islamic history and legend.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreen, Vera Basch

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents (page 7)
- Preface (page 13)
- A Note on the Text and the Transliterations (page 19)
- Table of Transliteration (page 20)
- Abbreviations (page 23)
- Introduction (page 25)
- Earliest Judeo-Persian Texts (page 46)
- Biblical Epics (page 50)
- An Apocryphal Epic (page 183)
- Didactic Poetry (page 200)
- Mishnah and Midrash (page 208)
- Biblical Commentaries (page 221)
- Religious Festivals in Sermon, Commentary and Poetry (page 230)
- Historical Texts (page 247)
- Polemics and Philosophy (page 272)
- Religious Poems (page 292)
- Panegyrics, Lyrical Poems, Quatrains (page 313)
- Notes (page 327)
- Bibliography (page 397)
- Index (page 413)