The Judeo-Persian Poet 'Emrānī and his “Book of Treasure”

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494863
Total Pages : 471 pages
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Book Synopsis The Judeo-Persian Poet 'Emrānī and his “Book of Treasure” by : David Yeroushalmi

Download or read book The Judeo-Persian Poet 'Emrānī and his “Book of Treasure” written by David Yeroushalmi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of their long history on Iranian soil the Jews of Iran have produced a large body of literature which has been little studied and published. This volume deals with one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran, known as 'Emrānī (1454-1536 C.E.). The book consists of three parts. The first part studies 'Emrānī's time, life and work and analyzes in depth the poet's last major work entitled Ganj-nāme (The Book of Treasure). Ganj-nāme, which is closely modeled after compositions of classical Persian literature, is 'Emrānī's versified commentary of the ethical tractate of the Mishnah commonly known as Pirqey Abot (“The Chapters of the Fathers”). The second part of the book offers the English translation, annotation and source study of Ganj-nāme. The third and last part of the book provides a critical edition of Ganj-nāme.

Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004497129
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Book Synopsis Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic by : Benjamin Hary

Download or read book Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic written by Benjamin Hary and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a study of multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic in addition to a critical edition, annotated translation, and a cultural and a grammatical study of The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community, written in 1524 to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews of Cairo from Ahmad Pasha, the governor of Egypt. 'Multiglossia' is a linguistic state in which different varieties of a language exist side by side in a language community and are used under different circumstances or with various functions. 'Judeo-Arabic' has been written and spoken in various forms by Jews throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Part One places the language of the Judeo-Arabic text of the Scroll within the multiglossic history of Judeo-Arabic. Part Two introduces the two critical editions of the Scroll, both in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, with the variant readings followed by an annotated translation. Part Three presents a detailed grammar of the Scroll using the framework of Judeo-Arabic multiglossia.

The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070477
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Book Synopsis The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture by : Robert Brody

Download or read book The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture written by Robert Brody and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population. The Geonim and their circles enshrined the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature and the leading guide to religious practice, and it was a predominantly Babylonian version of Judaism that was transplanted to newer centers of Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Robert Brody's book -- the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century -focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity. Brody describes the cultural spheres in which the Geonim were active and the historical and cultural settings within which they functioned. He emphasizes the challenges presented by other Jewish institutions and individuals, ranging from those within the Babylonian Jewish setting -- specially the political leadership represented by the Exilarch -- to the competing Palestinian Jewish center and to sectarian movements and freethinkers who rejected rabbinic authority altogether. He also describes the variety of ways in which the development of Geonic tradition was affected by the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, both Muslim and Christian. "This book is a fresh and thorough examination of the period in question, a masterpiece of scholarship and erudition". -- Neil Danzig, Jewish Theological Seminary

Reader's Guide to Judaism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135941505
Total Pages : 745 pages
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Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Judaism by : Michael Terry

Download or read book Reader's Guide to Judaism written by Michael Terry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.

Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004461221
Total Pages : 817 pages
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Book Synopsis Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia by : Esperanza Alfonso

Download or read book Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia written by Esperanza Alfonso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of these characteristics known to have been produced in this region. Esperanza Alfonso has edited the text and presents here a study of it, examining its pedagogical function, its sources, its exegetical content, and its extraordinary value for the study of biblical translation in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Sephardic Diaspora. Javier del Barco provides a detailed linguistic study and a glossary of the corpus of vernacular glosses. For a version with a list of corrections and additions, see https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/265401.

Books within Books

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004258507
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis Books within Books by : Andreas Lehnardt

Download or read book Books within Books written by Andreas Lehnardt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books within Books presents some recent findings and research projects on the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts discovered in the bindings of other manuscripts and early printed books across Europe. This is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew binding fragments presenting current scholarship and its international scope. From the contemporary perspective, the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts preserved until today, through their numbers (estimated 30,000 fragments, so more than double of the number of the known Hebrew volumes produced in medieval Europe ), the texts they carry (some of them have been previously unknown), the insights into book making techniques and finally their economic impact, are an unprecedented source for our knowledge of the Hebrew book culture and literacy as well as the economic and intellectual exchanges between the Jewish minority and their non-Jewish neighbours.

Reading the Rabbis

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004255737
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Reading the Rabbis by : Eva De Visscher

Download or read book Reading the Rabbis written by Eva De Visscher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the Rabbis Eva De Visscher examines the Hebrew scholarship of Englishman Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194). Chiefly known as the loyal secretary and hagiographer of Archbishop Thomas Becket and enemy of Henry II, he appears here as an outstanding Hebraist whose linguistic proficiency and engagement with Rabbinic sources, including contemporary teachers, were unique for a northern-European Christian of his time. Two commentaries on the Psalms by Herbert form the focus of scrutiny. In demonstrating influence from Jewish and Christian texts such as Rashi, Hebrew-French glossaries, Hebrew-Latin Psalters, and Victorine scholarship, De Visscher situates Herbert within the context of an increased interest in the revision of Jerome's Latin Bible and literal exegesis, and a heightened Christian awareness of Jewish 'other-ness'.

שרח מגלת אחשורוש

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163883
Total Pages : 477 pages
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Book Synopsis שרח מגלת אחשורוש by : Japheth ben Ali (ha-Levi)

Download or read book שרח מגלת אחשורוש written by Japheth ben Ali (ha-Levi) and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume is presented an edition, with translation and introduction, of the commentary on Esthera "the first completely extant representative of this medieval Jewish genrea "by Yefet ben a ~Eli ha-Levi, one of the preeminent litterateurs of the Karaite a oeGolden Agea (10tha "11th centuries).

Theological Encounters at a Crossroads

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380310
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Book Synopsis Theological Encounters at a Crossroads by : Daniel Lasker

Download or read book Theological Encounters at a Crossroads written by Daniel Lasker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judah Hadassi was the most prominent Karaite Jewish author of twelfth-century Byzantium, steeped in Karaite and Byzantine Greek traditions. In Theological Encounters at a Crossroads: An Edition and Translation of Judah Hadassi’s Eshkol ha-kofer, First Commandment, and Studies of the Book’s Judaeo-Arabic and Byzantine Contexts, a scientific edition of the first quarter of the Hebrew text of Hadassi’s magnum opus is presented with an English translation, a summary of his theology, a discussion of his use of the Greek language, and a linguistic analysis and transcription of all the Greek terms which appear in Hebrew letters in the entire treatise. This book should be of interest to students of Jewish thought, Hebrew literature and medieval Byzantine culture and language.

Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493816
Total Pages : 395 pages
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Book Synopsis Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor by : Mordechai Z. Cohen

Download or read book Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor. This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.

Peshat and Derash in the Exegesis of Rashi

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004497110
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Book Synopsis Peshat and Derash in the Exegesis of Rashi by : Gelles

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The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900431749X
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Book Synopsis The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs by : Ilana Sasson

Download or read book The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs written by Ilana Sasson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a critical edition and an introduction to the Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Proverbs by one of the most acclaimed, innovative, and prolific exegetes of the Karaite “Golden Age” (10th-11th centuries), Yefet ben ‘Eli ha-Levi. Yefet’s commentary on Proverbs attests to his rationalistic and revisionist ideology and to his egalitarian approach. His work is an invaluable link in the history of interpretation of the book of Proverbs. This edition is accompanied by an introduction including a thorough study of Yefet’s style of writing compared with the Arabic model of his time, his hermeneutic devices contrasted with those of Saadiah Gaon and midrash, his theology in light of the doctrines of Islamic Mu‘tazila, and his polemics against various groups.

The Contemplative Soul

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404084
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis The Contemplative Soul by : Adena Tanenbaum

Download or read book The Contemplative Soul written by Adena Tanenbaum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Andalusian Jewish poets introduced philosophical theories into their devotional verse. This study explores the impact of their rich intellectual and cultural life on their Hebrew poems devoted to the soul.

Heresy and the Politics of Community

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455308
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Heresy and the Politics of Community by : Marina Rustow

Download or read book Heresy and the Politics of Community written by Marina Rustow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraites, the two major Jewish groups under Islamic rule, split decisively in the tenth century and from that time forward the minority Qaraites were deemed a heretical sect. Qaraites affirmed a right to decide matters of Jewish law free from centuries of rabbinic interpretation; the Rabbanites, in turn, claimed an unbroken chain of scholarly tradition. Rustow draws heavily on the Cairo Geniza, a repository of papers found in a Rabbanite synagogue, to show that despite the often fierce arguments between the groups, they depended on each other for political and financial support and cooperated in both public and private life. This evidence of remarkable interchange leads Rustow to the conclusion that the accusation of heresy appeared sporadically, in specific contexts, and that the history of permanent schism was the invention of polemicists on both sides. Power shifted back and forth fluidly across what later commentators, particularly those invested in the rabbinic claim to exclusive authority, deemed to have been sharply drawn boundaries. Heresy and the Politics of Community paints a portrait of a more flexible medieval Eastern Mediterranean world than has previously been imagined and demonstrates a new understanding of the historical meanings of charges of heresy against communities of faith. Historians of premodern societies will find that, in her fresh approach to medieval Jewish and Islamic culture, Rustow illuminates a major issue in the history of religions.

Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004169318
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Book Synopsis Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry by : Alessandro Guetta

Download or read book Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry written by Alessandro Guetta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing well-known Hebrew medieval poets from a new, refreshing standpoint and focusing on less known authors and periods, this book shows the maturity of the research in this field. Written in English (and French) the articles make the Hebrew texts more easily available to scholars of comparative literature.

The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199959803
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Book Synopsis The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought by : Katell Berthelot

Download or read book The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought written by Katell Berthelot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis of Jewish thought from ancient times to the present on the issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites.

Proximity and Distance

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047405129
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Proximity and Distance by : Yosef Tobi

Download or read book Proximity and Distance written by Yosef Tobi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central feature of this book is an innovative critical approach, which understands medieval Hebrew poetry not only by revealing its ties with Arabic poetry but also by determining the specific characteristics by which it stubbornly distinguished itself from Arabic poetry.