Description |
1 online resource |
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Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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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
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Laudatory poetry -- History and criticism
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Praise in literature.
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Jews -- Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500
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Power (Philosophy) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Jewish Studies.
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Hebrew poetry, Medieval.
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Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Laudatory poetry.
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Power (Philosophy) in literature.
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Praise in literature.
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Mediterranean Region.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812295245 |
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0812295242 |
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