Giving a diamond [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honor of Joseph Yahalom on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / / edited by Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461231403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, : Boston ; Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-12110-7; 9786613121103; 90-04-20382-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Collana: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, , 0169-815X ; ; v. 49
• Altri autori (Persone): BekkumWout Jac. van; KatsumataNaoya; YahalomJoseph
• Disciplina: 492.4
• Soggetti: Hebrew literature - History and criticism; Jewish literature - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- Biography / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- Bibliography / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- Planets In Ancient Hebrew Literature / Reimund Leicht -- Translation And The Comprehensibility Of Early Piyyut / Reimund Leicht -- Figurative Language In Early Piyyut / Ophir Münz-Manor -- The Poetics Of Yannai’s Sixth: Between Scripture, God, And Congregation / Tzvi Novick -- Piyyut As Poetics, The Example Of Yannai’s Qedushta For Deut. 6:4 / Wout Van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata -- A Third Dew Shiv‘Ata By Eleazar Be-Rabbi Qillir / Michael Rand -- Congregational Participation Within The Biblical Story In The Yotser Poems Of Shlomo Suliman / Avi Shmidman -- Concerning The Terminology Of Al-Ḥarizi’s Virtues Debate / Jonathan P. Decter -- Shema Meni Refuot Ha-Gewiyya Ve-Nafshekha Bo Tehi Omda Ve-Ḥayya: A Didactical Poem Of A Regimen Sanitatis According To Maimonides By Jehuda Al-Ḥarizi / Peter Sh. Lehnardt -- K. Ad-Durr Al-Manzûm : A Sufi Collection Of Moral Aphorisms In Judaeo-Arabic / Paul ; B. Fenton -- Polemics Real and Imagined in Zechariah Alḍāhirī’s Sefer Ha-Musar by Adena Tanenbaum / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- Late Ashkenazic Qinot In The Nuremberg Maḥzor / Elisabeth Hollender -- Moses de Roquemaure: Poetry, Polemic And Conversion / Susan L. Einbinder -- A Fifteenth Century Letter Addressed To The Dayyanim Of Zaragoza / Javier Castaño -- A Poem In The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect Of Sanandaj / Geoffrey Khan -- Index Of Terms / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- Index Of Names / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum -- List Of Contributors / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains fifteen essays in honor of Professor Joseph Yahalom who served as a lecturer at the Hebrew University from 1974 until he became full professor in 1985. The completion of his Warburg price awarded thesis in 1973 marked the start of a long and successful academic career in both Hebrew and Jewish studies, with much emphasis on poetry and poetics. Yahalom’s continuing interest in and research on ancient Piyyut led to a number of editions of Hebrew and Aramaic texts as well as to studies on the early Palestinian vocalization system and the language of Piyyut based on the Genizah findings. In 1983, Yahalom was elected a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. In 2003, he received the Yizhak Ben-Zvi award for his lifetime study of Jewish history and Hebrew literature. Yahalom’s research on Hebrew medieval liturgical poetry focused on a period of roughly one thousand years, from the days of early Byzantium until the final days of Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula and the Sephardic diaspora. His bibliography testifies to his expertise of understanding Hebrew verse, laying much emphasis on the interaction between the Jewish and surrounding cultures, which concur with Yahalom’s overall convictions and views about Jewish literature in context.