The Poet and the World

Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-060075-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Hebrew, Band 107, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Studia Judaica

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

Zielgruppe

Researchers in the fields of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Medieval / Forschende zur hebräischen Literatur im Mittelalter, jüdischer Ku

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yeshaya, Joachim

Katsumata, Naoya

Hollender, Elisabeth

Yeshaya, Joachim J. M. S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Über Autor(innen)

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