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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785098103321

Titolo

The anthology in Jewish literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Stern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-773821-4

1-280-56005-3

0-19-535024-3

1-4237-6257-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SternDavid <1949->

Disciplina

808.8/98924

Soggetti

Jewish literature - History and criticism

Anthologies

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Judaism - Literary collections - History

Jews - History

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction; I. ANCIENT ISRAEL AND CLASSICAL JUDAISM; 2. Anthology in the Torah and the Question of Deuteronomy; 3. Wisdom and the Anthological Temper; 4. Order, Sequence, and Selection: The Mishnah's Anthological Choices; 5. Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud; 6. Anthology and Polysemy in Classical Midrash; II. THE MIDDLE AGES; 7. The Prayerbook (Siddur) as an Anthology of Judaism; 8. Yalqut Shim'oni and the Medieval Midrashic Anthology; 9. The Hebrew Narrative Anthology in the Middle Ages

10. Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector MentalityIII. THE MODERN PERIOD; 11. Homo Anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre; 12. Sefer Ha'aggadah: Creating a Classic Anthology; 13. The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism's Anthology Projects; 14. Gender and the Anthological Tradition in Modern Yiddish Poetry; 15. "Our Poetry Is Like an Orange Grove": Anthologies of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Yisrael; 16. Anthologizing the Vernacular:



Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation

17. Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modern Israel18. The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists

Sommario/riassunto

From the Talmud to the latest collection of short stories, the anthology has been a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature throughout its history, and has played a seminal role in the creation, transmission, and preservation of Jewish culture since ancient times. And yet of all literary genres the anthology may be the most denigrated and least understood. This volume represents a major first step in the study of the genre and of the different functions it serves as a literary form and as a medium of canonization. The book comprises eighteen essays devoted to anthological works in Jewish lite

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826185803321

Titolo

The Southeast Maya periphery / / edited by Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

0-292-76286-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

972.801

Soggetti

Indians of Central America - Antiquities

Mayas - Antiquities

Central America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- PART I. COPAN AND QUIRIGUA -- 2. Iconography and History at Copan -- 3. Archaeological Investigations in the Site Core of Quirigua, Guatemala -- 4. Peten Cosmology in the Maya Southeast: An Analysis of Architecture and Settlement Patterns at Classic Quirigua -- 5. Construction Activity as a



Measurement of Change at Copan, Honduras -- 6. History and Characteristics of Settlement in the Copan Valley, and Some Comparisons with Quirigua -- 7. Late Classic Relationship between Copan and Quirigua: Some Epigraphic Evidence -- 8. Survey in the Outlying Areas of the Copan Region, and the Copan-Quirigua "Connection" -- 9. Interaction between the Maya and Non-Maya along the Late Classic Southeast Maya Periphery: The View from the Lower Motagua Valley, Guatemala -- 10. A Reexamination of Stela Caches at Copan: New Dates for Copador -- 11. Compositional Analysis of Copador and Related Pottery in the Southeast Maya Area -- 12. Copan, Quirigua, and the Southeast Maya Zone: A Summary View -- PART II. THE GREATER SOUTHEAST -- 13. The Periphery Problem and Playa de los Muertos: A Test Case -- 14. Late Preclassic Ceramic Spheres, Culture Areas, and Cultural Evolution in the Southeastern Highlands of Mesoamerica -- 15. Natural Hazards, Natural Disasters, and Research in the Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador -- 16. A Typological Study of Prehistoric Settlement of the Eastern Alluvial Fans, Sula Valley, Honduras: Comparison to Maya Settlement Forms -- 17. Late Classic Settlements in the Comayagua Valley -- 18. Precolumbian Settlement in the Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras -- 19. The Role of Commercial Agriculture in Early Post classic Developments in Central El Salvador: The Rise and Fall of Cihuatan -- 20. Naco, Honduras—Some Aspects of a Late Precolumbian Community on the Eastern Maya Frontier -- 21. Southeast Mesoamerican Periphery Summary Comments -- 22. Summary of Southeastern Periphery Papers -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing zones that are clearly Mayan in language and culture, especially during the Classic period, this area also includes zones that seem to be non-Mayan. The Southeast Maya Periphery examines both aspects of this territory. For the Maya, emphasis is on two sites: Quirigua, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras. For the non-Maya zone, information is presented on a variety of sites and subregions—the Lower Motagua Valley in Guatemala; the Naco, Sula, and Comayagua valleys and the site of Playa de los Muertos in Honduras; and the Zapotitan Valley and the sites of Cihuatan and Santa Leticia in El Salvador. Spanning over two thousand years of prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the essays in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement patterns, and ceramics and include basic information on chronology. Copan and Quirigua are treated both individually and in comparative perspective. This significant study was the first to attempt to deal with the Periphery as a coherent unit. Unique in its comparative presentation of Copan and Quirigua and in the breadth of information on non-Maya sites in the area, The Southeast Maya Periphery consists largely of previously unpublished data. Offering a variety of approaches to both old and new problems, this volume attempts, among other things, to reassess the relationships between Copan and Quirigua and between Highland and Lowland ceramic traditions, to analyze ceramics by neutron activation, and to define the nature of the apparently non-Mayan cultures in the region. This book will be of major interest not only to Mayanists and Mesoamerican archaeologists but also to others interested in the processes of ethnic group boundary formation and maintenance.