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Author Decter, Jonathan P., 1971- author.

Title Dominion built of praise : panegyric and legitimacy among Jews in the medieval Mediterranean / Jonathan Decter
Edition 1st edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Jewish culture and contexts
Jewish culture and contexts.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange -- Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture -- Chapter 3. "Humble Like the Humble One": The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy -- Chapter 4. "Sefarad Boasts over Shinar": Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric -- Chapter 5. "A Word Aptly Spoken": The Ethics of Praise -- Chapter 6. "A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .": Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification -- Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology -- Chapter 8. "May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!": Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean -- Chapter 9. The Other "Great Eagle": Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Geniza Manuscripts -- Acknowledgments
Summary In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter looks at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives--social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological--and finds that they depict how representations of Jewish political leadership varied across space and evolved over time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism
Laudatory poetry -- History and criticism
Praise in literature.
Jews -- Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500
Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500
Power (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
Hebrew poetry, Medieval.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
Laudatory poetry.
Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Power (Philosophy) in literature.
Praise in literature.
Mediterranean Region.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812295245
0812295242