ISBN:
9789004365896
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval tomb 75
Series Statement:
Cambridge Genizah studies series v. 8
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lieber, Laura Suzanne, author Jewish Aramaic poetry from late antiquity
Keywords:
Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic
;
Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic Translations into English
;
Jewish religious poetry, Aramaic History and criticism
;
Fasts and feasts Poetry Judaism
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Passover -- Shavuot -- Tisha b’Av -- Purim -- Rosh Hodesh Nisan -- Concluding the Torah -- Epithalamia -- Eulogies -- A Poetic Miscellany.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
DOI:
10.1163/9789004365896
