ISBN:
9789004234635
,
9789004278592
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource ( 1 online resource (S. )
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Year of publication:
2014
Series Statement:
The Brill reference library of Judaism 1571-5000 v. 40
Series Statement:
The Brill reference library of Judaism v. 40
Series Statement:
Brill online books and journals: E-books
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Piyutim Criticism, Textual
;
Judaism Texts
;
Liturgy
;
Piyutim Criticism, Textual
;
Judaism Texts Liturgy
Abstract:
"In A Vocabulary of Desire, Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the Song of Songs, Lieber brings the creative spirit-liturgical, intellectual, and exegetical-of these poems vividly to the fore. All who are interested in the early interpretation of the Song of Songs, the ancient synagogue, early Jewish and Christian hymnography, and Judaism in Late Antiquity will find this volume both enriching and accessible. The volume consists of two interrelated halves. In the first section, four introductory essays establish the broad cultural context in which these poems emerged; in the second, each chapter consists of an analytical essay structured around a single, complete poetic cycle, presented in new Hebrew editions with annotated original English translations"--
Note:
"This volume examines six piyyutim ... 1. An anonymous qedushta shel sheva for Passover (ca. fifth century) ; 2. A shivata for Passover by Yannai (sixth century) ; 3. A qerova for Passover by Yannai ; 4. A shivata for the Prayer for Dew by Eleazar birabbi Qallir (late sixth-early seventh century) ; 5. A qedushta for the first Sabbath following a wedding by Eleazar birabbi Qallir ; 6. A yotzer for Passover by Eleazar birabbi Qallir"--ECIP introduction. - Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004278592
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