Hebrew poetry from late antiquity : : liturgical poems of Yehudah : critical edition with introduction and commentary / / Wout Jac. van Bekkum.

• Superior document: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 43
• Author: Yehudah, active 6th century.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bekkum, Wout Jac. van.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: Hebrew; English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 183 pages) :; illustrations.

The discovery of the Genizah manuscipt collection is nothing less than a revolution for the knowledge of Hebrew literature and Jewish culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. One of the main results of one hundred years of Genizah research is the rediscovery of Hebrew liturgical poetry which shed much light on various aspects of Jewish studies. For the last half century it has been almost comonplace to discover new poems, unknown poets, novel uses of poetry and unfamiliar poetic versions of familiar prose texts within liturgical settings being revealed among the manuscripts and manuscript fragments. The products of the composers and reciters of synagogue poetry convincingly demonstrate the importance of poetry in Jewish worship and communal life. The major corpora of Palestinian liturgical poetry bear evidence to the prolific literary activity of a number of famous poets who laid the foundations for the development of Hebrew poetry in later periods: Yossi ben Yossi, Yannai, Simon bar Megas, Elazar birabbi Kilir and Yohanan ha-Kohen. One of these mostly Byzantine-Jewish 'melodists' was Yehudah who composed a cycle of poems in accordance with the reading tradition of the Pentateuch and Prophets on the sabbath. This study presents Yehudah's oeuvre with commentaries and deals with its historical and literary context in four introductory chapters. The edition is complemented by indices and a bibliography.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- FOREWORD / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INTRODUCTION / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- YEHUDAH IN THE STUDY OF PIYYUT / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- STRUCTURAL DEVICES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- THE USE OF LITERARY SOURCES IN THE QEDUSHTOT OF YEHUDAH / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LANGUAGE AND STYLE / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- THE EDITING OF THE MANUSCRIPTS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- POEMS AND COMMENTARIES / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- GENESIS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- FESTIVALS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- POEMS OF UNCERTAIN ATTRIBUTION / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INDICES / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- TABLE OF EPITHETS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- INDEX OF EPITHETS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- TABLE OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF PIYYUT OPENINGS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR REGULAR SABBATHS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM -- ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS UND DES URCHRISTENTUMS / WOUT JAC. VAN BEKKUM.