Exegesis and poetry in medieval Karaite and rabbanite texts : : Karaite texts and studies / / edited by Joachim Yeshaya (Ghent University), Elisabeth Hollender (Goethe University, Frankfurt).

"This collection of essays offers an inquiry into the complex interaction between exegesis and poetry that characterized medieval and early modern Karaite and Rabbanite treatment of the Bible in the Islamic world, the Byzantine Empire, and Christian Europe. Discussing a variety of topics that a...

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Superior document:Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, volume 68
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 68.
Karaite texts and studies ; volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Elisabeth Hollender and Joachim Yeshaya
  • “Singing Songs about Songs”: Biblical and Exegetical Interconnections in Three Hebrew Hymns for Yōm Vayyōshaʿ (the Seventh Day of Passover) / Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata
  • “Many Beautiful Meanings Can Be Drawn from Such a Comparison”: On the Medieval Interaction View of Biblical Metaphor / Sivan Nir and Meira Polliack
  • “The Distinction of Creative Ability” (Faḍl al-ibdāʿ): From Poetics to Legal Hermeneutics in Moses Ibn Ezra / Mordechai Cohen
  • The Biblical Exegesis of Abraham Ibn Ezra as a Hermeneutical Device: A Literary Riddle as a Case Study / Haviva Ishay
  • The Uses of Scripture in Zechariah al-Ḍāhirī’s Sēfer ha-mūsār / Adena Tanenbaum
  • The Interplay of Poetry and Exegesis in Judah Hadassi’s Eshkōl ha-kōfer / Daniel J. Lasker
  • Aaron ben Joseph’s Poem for Pārāshat Yitrō Considered in Light of His Torah Commentary Sēfer ha-miḇḥār / Joachim Yeshaya
  • Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Karaite Exegetical Challenge / Saskia Dönitz
  • The Methods of Judah Gibbor’s Biblical Exegesis in Minḥat Yĕhūdā / Philip Miller
  • “The One Who Defeats the Power of the Stars”: Medieval Exegetics in Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Poetry / Riikka Tuori
  • Berakha ben Joseph’s Commentary on the Piyyūṭīm by Aaron ben Joseph / Elisabeth Hollender
  • General Index.