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Author Tobi, Joseph

Title Proximity and distance : medieval Hebrew and Arabic poetry / by Yosef Tobi ; translated from the Hebrew by Murray Rosovsky
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 407 pages)
Series Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; t. 27
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 27. 0169-815X
Contents Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One: Research on the Affinity of Hebrew Poetry to Arabic Poetry in the Middle Ages -- PART ONE: THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTACTS IN THE EAST -- Chapter Two: The Encounter of Hebrew and Arabic Poetry in the East in the Tenth-Twelfth Centuries -- Chapter Three: Sa'adia and Arabic Poetry: Philosophical Culture and Philosophical Poetry -- Chapter Four: Sa'adia's Poetics: Old Wine in a New Bottle -- PART TWO: HEBREW SECULAR POETRY IN SPAIN -- Chapter Five: Hebrew Poetry and Arabic Poetry in Spain: Similarity and Distinctiveness
Chapter Six: Philosophy in Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Poetry in Spain -- Chapter Seven: Medieval Hebrew Secular Poetry: Pagan Ideas Versus the Tenets of Judaism -- Chapter Eight: The Poetry of Sh muel Ha-Nagid against the Background of Arabic Poetry of Self-Praise -- PART THREE: THE POETICS OF HEBREW POETRY IN SPAIN -- Chapter Nine: Metaphor in Hebrew Medieval Poetry -- Chapter Ten: Modifications of Language and of Metre in Hebrew Medieval Poetry Compared with darūrat al-shi'r, zihāfāt, and 'ilal in Medieval Arabic Poetry
Chapter Eleven: The Source of Alharīzī's t na'e ha-shi'r (Conditions of Poetry) in 'amūd al-shi'r of Arabic Poetry -- Chapter Twelve: Aristotle's Poetics in Medieval Jewish Literature -- APPENDICES -- Appendix One: The Proverb Writer Sa'īd B. Bābshād: A Tenth-Century Eastern Hebrew Poet -- Appendix Two: Sh lomo b. Gabirol and Bahye b. Paqūda: Philosophical Ideas in Spanish Liturgical Poetry -- Appendix Three: A Poem by the Jewish Apostate to Islam Abraham B. Sahl? -- Bibliography -- Indices -- A. Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R
S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z -- B. Persons and Places -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- C. Books -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Y
Summary The first steps in Hebrew secular poetry took place around the turn of the ninth century, under the impact of contemporary Arabic poetry. This impact was so great that some researchers, incorrectly, define the Hebrew poetry as a school which is distinct from the Arabic school only by virtue of its Hebrew language. However, the right way to the essence of medieval Hebrew poetry is not only by revealing and describing its ties with Arabic poetry but also by determining the specific characteristics by which it stubbornly distinguished itself from its Arabic contemporaries. This innovative critical approach is the central feature of this book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-395) and indexes
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Subject Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- Spain -- History and criticism
Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- Middle East -- History and criticism
Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- Arab influences
Arabic poetry -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
Arabic poetry
Hebrew poetry, Medieval
Dichtkunst.
Arabisch.
Hebreeuws.
Receptie.
Middle East
Spain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1429414812
9781429414814
Other Titles Ḳeruv u-deḥiyah. English