A Life in Parables and Poetry: Mishael Maswari Caspi : : Essays in Memory of a Pedagogue, Poet, and Scholar / / ed. by John T. Greene.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Caspi, Avshalom,; Cortez, Felix H.,; Crookes, David Z.,; Ellens, J. Harold,; Forti, Tova,; Greene, John T.,; Hamel, Gildas,; Jenks, Gregory C.,; Kramer, Kenneth P.,; Milstein, Sara J.,; Neu-Sokol, Gerda,; Peleg, Itzhak,; Perry, Theodor A.,; Raider, Mark A.,; Stern, Max,; Talit Reisenberger, Azila,; Thorington, Helen,; Vance, Donald R.,; Wrobel, Ruthanne,; Yehoshua, A. B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Greene, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Islamkundliche Untersuchungen , 318
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)

It is said that the greatest Mitzvah or good deed is to carry the coffin or bier on which a departed friend lies; the reason being that that departed friend cannot return the favor or honor. A modified version of this Mitzvah is employed by academics; it takes the form of a memorial volume in honor and memory of a departed academic who was most effective and beloved during his or her career. Thus, this memorial volume, dedicated to the honored memory of Professor Mishael Maswari Caspi, is just such a Mitzvah. The essays in this volume are of first class academic worth; a small digression of the norm of their contents being totally objective is that they were crafted with the addition of two emotions not found in academic works: great love and respect. Professor Caspi subscribed to the view that the greatest gift a former student or colleague could give to a professor was a piece of his or her critical mind. The fruit of some of those critical minds are enshrined within the covers of this memorial volume. The reader will return often to this volume and its special morphology crafted in honor of an accomplished scholar, pedagogue, poet, and Mensch. He tasked us before his departure to never become slack in our efforts to advance scholarship, but to never attempt to achieve this end through academic dictatorship. Misha remains in our memory forever. z”lThese, however, are not the only gifts that this volume contains. There are a number of reflections herein that, combined, provide another form of Mitzvah: that of personal experience with Professor Caspi, and reveal a side of him that would never be reflected in a well-crafted, academic essay in his honor. The combination has produced a Mitzvah Gdolah (a great deed). The reader will return often to this volume and its special morphology crafted in honor of an accomplished scholar, pedagogue, poet, and Mensch. He tasked us before his departure to never become slack in our efforts to advance scholarship, but to never att

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Biography and Curriculum Vitae -- Prolegomena -- A Brief Professional Biography of Mishael Maswari Caspi -- Curriculum Vitae of Mishael M. Caspi -- Poetry and Music -- Le ‘Chaim’ – To Life. Four Poems -- Palestrina’s Motivic Symbolism in the Offertory Motet “In Die Ascensionis Domini” (Psalm 46V) -- Lord and Lady: Old Ideas Served Up Anew in Leonard Cohen’s Lyrics -- Archaeological and Historical Studies -- Did the Tenth Century B.C.E. Only Exist at Tzer/Et-Tell/Bethsaida? -- From King David to Jesus -- A Roman Coin from Bethsaida (et-Tell) -- Zodiac and Time in Byzantine Palestine -- Between Immigration and Isolationism -- The Zionist Revolution: Quo Vadis? -- Literary Studies -- The Place (maqom) in the Story of Jacob’s Dream at Beth-El: Two Readings -- The Feminine Personification of Wisdom and the “Wise Woman” as a “Persona” -- Delusions of Grandeur: Revision through Introduction in Judges 6-9 -- The Wilderness of the Universe: Reality versus Theology in the Book of Job -- Sexual Metaphors of Field (sadeh) and Food as Keys to Interpretation in the Hebrew Bible -- The Charismatic Worldview of Proverbs -- Apocalyptic as Delusion: Jesus’ Main Problem -- Innuendo as a Rhetorical Strategy: Davidic Traditions as a Subtext of Hebrews -- Personal Reflections -- Reflection -- Being a Dialogue with Mishael Caspi -- My Father -- Mishael Caspi: Teacher, Scholar, Poet, and Story-teller Celebration of a Friendship -- Misha Caspi -- Mishael Caspi