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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Biography Bibliography Reimund Leicht Planets in Ancient Hebrew Literature Michael D. Swartz Translation and the Comprehensibility of Early Piyyut Ophir Münz-Manor Figurative Language in Early Piyyut Tzvi Novick The Poetics of Yannai’s Sixth: Between Scripture, God, and Congregation Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata Piyyut as Poetics, The Example of Yannai’s Qedushta for Deut. 6:4 Michael Rand A Third Dew Shiv‘Ata by Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir Avi Shmidman Congregational Participation within the Biblical Story in the Yotser Poems of Shlomo Suliman Jonathan P. Decter Concerning the Terminology of Al-Ḥarizi’s Virtues Debate Peter Sh. Lehnardt 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 Paul B. Fenton K. Ad-Durr Al-Manzûm : A Sufi Collection of Moral Aphorisms in Judaeo-Arabic Adena Tanenbaum Polemics Real and Imagined in Zechariah Alḍāhirī’s Sefer Ha-Musar Elisabeth Hollender Late Ashkenazic Qinot in the Nuremberg Maḥzor Susan L. Einbinder Moses De Roquemaure: Poetry, Polemic and Conversion Javier Castaño A Fifteenth Century Letter Addressed to the Dayyanim of Zaragoza Geoffrey Khan A Poem in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj
