Giving a diamond : essays in honor of Joseph Yahalom on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / / edited by Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata.

This 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 He...

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Superior document:Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, v. 49
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 49.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • Biography / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • Bibliography / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • Planets In Ancient Hebrew Literature / Reimund Leicht
  • Translation And The Comprehensibility Of Early Piyyut / Reimund Leicht
  • Figurative Language In Early Piyyut / Ophir Münz-Manor
  • The Poetics Of Yannai’s Sixth: Between Scripture, God, And Congregation / Tzvi Novick
  • Piyyut As Poetics, The Example Of Yannai’s Qedushta For Deut. 6:4 / Wout Van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata
  • A Third Dew Shiv‘Ata By Eleazar Be-Rabbi Qillir / Michael Rand
  • Congregational Participation Within The Biblical Story In The Yotser Poems Of Shlomo Suliman / Avi Shmidman
  • Concerning The Terminology Of Al-Ḥarizi’s Virtues Debate / Jonathan P. Decter
  • 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 / Peter Sh. Lehnardt
  • K. Ad-Durr Al-Manzûm : A Sufi Collection Of Moral Aphorisms In Judaeo-Arabic / Paul B. Fenton
  • Polemics Real and Imagined in Zechariah Alḍāhirī’s Sefer Ha-Musar by Adena Tanenbaum / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • Late Ashkenazic Qinot In The Nuremberg Maḥzor / Elisabeth Hollender
  • Moses de Roquemaure: Poetry, Polemic And Conversion / Susan L. Einbinder
  • A Fifteenth Century Letter Addressed To The Dayyanim Of Zaragoza / Javier Castaño
  • A Poem In The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect Of Sanandaj / Geoffrey Khan
  • Index Of Terms / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • Index Of Names / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum
  • List Of Contributors / N. Katsumata and W. Van Bekkum.