Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin / / Michael Rand; ed. by Jonathan P. Decter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rand, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Abusch, Tzvi,; Beeri, Tova,; Brann, Ross,; Bregman, Dvora,; Cohen, Mark R.,; Decter, Jonathan P.,; Einbinder, Susan L.,; Geller, Stephen A.,; Hámori, András,; Kfir, Uriah,; Morrison, Robert,; Rand, Michael,; Ravid, Benjamin,; Rosen, Tova,; Sells, Michael,; Sáenz-Badillos, Angel,; Tanenbaum, Adena,; Targarona Borrás, Judit,; Tobi, Yosef,; Wagner, Mark S.,; Yahalom, Yosef,
• HerausgeberIn: Decter, Jonathan P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Précis Portfolios
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 6

This volume contains contributions, in English and Hebrew, on the following topics: Biblical criticism, Medieval Biblical lexicography, Classical and Post-Classical piyyut, Medieval Hebrew poetry and science, Judeo-Arabic poetry and epistolography, Classical Arabic poetry and prose, and the history of Jewish Studies in America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Raymond P. Scheindlin – A Sketch -- Bibliography of the Writings of Raymond P. Scheindlin -- Notes on Two Passages in the Biblical Account of Prehistory -- He Said, She Said: Reinscribing the Andalusi Arabic Love Lyric -- On the Interplay of Arabic and Hebrew in the Cairo Geniza Letters -- Yedaiah Bedersi’s Elef Alafin -- The Still, Small Voice: 1 Kings 19 and the Roots of Intolerance in Biblical Religion -- Ill-Starred Characters -- Andalusian Responses to Ptolemy in Hebrew -- The Human Dimension of Wissenschaft des Judentums: Letters from the Rawidowicz Archives -- What Does a Father Want?: An Unpublished Poem and Its Intertexts -- Some Minutiae of Raymond Scheindlin’s Job Translation in Light of Medieval Hebrew Exegesis, Philology, and Poetry -- “You’d Have Seen What Melts the Mind” – Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Poem No. 20 from the Turjumān al-Ashwāq -- The Urge to Be Immortalized: Zechariah Ald. āhirī’s Poetic Epitaphs for Himself -- The Dirges of Don Benvenist and Doña Tolosana de la Cavalleria for the Death of Their Son Solomon -- Major Themes in the Poetry of Rabbi Sālim al-Shabazī -- The Drama of Joseph and His Brothers in Piyyut Literature -- החשוקה כמשל לחכמה האלוהית בשירי אבן גבירול -- הן עתה תהיה על בתי אבן: שירי מצבה של משה זכות -- שיר פרישות פייטני לדויד הנשיא