A vocabulary of desire : : the Song of Songs in the early synagogue / / by Laura S. Lieber.

In A Vocabulary of Desire , Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the Song o...

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Superior document:The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 40
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 40.
Physical Description:1 online resource (462 p.)
Notes:"This volume examines six piyyutim ... 1. An anonymous qedushta shel sheva for Passover (ca. fifth century) ; 2. A shivata for Passover by Yannai (sixth century) ; 3. A qerova for Passover by Yannai ; 4. A shivata for the Prayer for Dew by Eleazar birabbi Qallir (late sixth-early seventh century) ; 5. A qedushta for the first Sabbath following a wedding by Eleazar birabbi Qallir ; 6. A yotzer for Passover by Eleazar birabbi Qallir"--ECIP introduction.
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