| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) |
| Series |
Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; tomb 75 |
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Cambridge Genizah studies series ; volume 8 |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Passover -- 1. Passover Love Song (ShBM1) -- 2. Moses Confronts the Sea (ShBM2) -- 3. Exodus Retold (ShBM4) -- 4. Mighty Redemption (ShBM5) -- 5. Enemy Speaks (ShBM 6) -- 6. Who is Like You? (ShBM 7) -- 7. Lord Will Reign (ShBM 8) -- 8. None is Like Him (ShBM 9) -- 2. Shavuot -- 9. Ruth Retold (ShBM 10) -- 10. Moses is Summoned to the Summit (ShBM 11) -- 11. Moses and the Angels (ShBM 12) -- 12. No Idols: Daniel's Friends Counter the King (ShBM 13) -- 13. Honor Your Father and Mother: The Akedah (ShBM 14) -- 14. You Shall Not Murder: The Death of Joab (ShBM 15 and 15*) -- 15. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (ShBM 16) -- 3. Tishab'Av -- 16. Fall of Betar (ShBM17) -- 17. Reasons to Weep (ShBM 18) -- 18. Zion's Lament (ShBM 19) -- 19. Woe is Me! (ShBM 20) -- 20. I Shall Go Forth Weeping (ShBM 21) -- 21. By the Rivers of Babylon (ShBM 22) -- 22. Poet's Plea (ShBM23) -- 23. Witness to Destruction (ShBM 24) -- 24. Ancestral Intercession (ShBM 25) -- 25. Poet's Lament (ShBM Appendix) -- 4. Purim -- 26. Poetic History (ShBM 26) -- 27. Esther's Entreaty (ShBM 27) -- 28. Esther's Sacrifice (ShBM 28) -- 29. Dispute among Trees (ShBM 29) -- 30. Prelude to Purim (ShBM 30) -- 31. Esther and Zion (ShBM 31) -- 32. Zeresh's Lament (ShBM 32) -- 33. Whole Megillah, in Brief (ShBM 32*) -- 34. Enemies of Israel Hold Forth (ShBM 33) -- 5. Rosh Hodesh Nisan -- 35. Foremost Month (ShBM 34) -- 36. Lyric of Redemption (ShBM 35) -- 37. Poem of Portents (ShBM 36) -- 38. Nisan's Declamation (ShBM 37) -- 39. Cosmic Sense of History (ShBM 38) -- 40. Dispute among the Months (ShBM 39) -- 6. Concluding the Torah -- 41. Moses Confronts Mortality (ShBM 40) -- 42. Mourning Moses (ShBM 41) -- 43. Jochebed's Search (ShBM42) -- 44. Psalm for the Psalmist (ShBM 43) -- 45. On Chronicles (ShBM 44) -- 7. Epithalamia -- 46. Wisdom for the Groom (ShBM 44*) -- 47. Address to the Groom (ShBM 45) -- 48. Groom's Tribute (ShBM 46) -- 49. Marriage Takes Three (ShBM 47) -- 50. Poet's Advice (ShBM 48) -- 51. Groom's Teaching (ShBM 49) -- 52. Wedding Homily (ShBM 50) -- 8. Eulogies -- 53. Lineage of Mortality I (ShBM 51) -- 54. Lineage of Mortality II (ShBM 52) -- 55. Lineage of Mortality III (ShBM 53) -- 56. Farewell for a Priest (ShBM 54) -- 57. History of Mortality (ShBM 55) -- 58. Farewell to a Woman (ShBM 56) -- 59. Body versus Soul (ShBM 57) -- 60. Farewell to a Child I (ShBM 58) -- 61. Farewell to a Youth (ShBM 59) -- 62. Farewell to a Child II (ShBM 60) -- 63. Graveside Eulogy I (ShBM 61) -- 64. Graveside Eulogy II (ShBM 62) -- 65. Graveside Eulogy III (ShBM 64) -- 66. Graveside Eulogy IV (ShBM 65) -- 67. After the Farewells (ShBM 66) -- 9. Poetic Miscellany -- 68. Song of Solomon (ShBM 67) -- 69. Threefold Torah (ShBM 68) |
| Summary |
"In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity, Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th century C.E. in the Land of Israel, along with commentaries and introductions. The poems celebrate a range of occasions from the ritual year and the life-cycle: Passover, Shavuot (Pentacost), the Ninth of Av, Purim, the New Moon of Nisan, the conclusion of the Torah, weddings, and funerals. Written in the vernacular of the Jews of living in Palestine after the Christianization of the Roman Empire, these works offer insight into lived Jewish experience during a pivotal age. The volume contextualizes the individual works so that readers from a range of backgrounds can appreciate the formal, linguistic, exegetical, theological, and performative creativity of these works"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic.
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Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic -- Translations into English
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Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic -- History and criticism
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Fasts and feasts -- Judaism -- Poetry
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Fasts and feasts -- Judaism
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Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018010447 |
| ISBN |
9789004365896 |
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9004365893 |
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