Between Hebrew and Arabic Poetry

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Author: Yosef Tobi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-07-14

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9004189459

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The basic concept of this book is that in spite of the borrowed Arabic poetical values, medieval Hebrew poetry stubbornly distanced itself from Arabic poetry. The conclusive result of an in-depth comparative examination is that Hebrew poetry combined selective Arabic poetical values with ethical Jewish values to create a distinctive poetical school.

Proximity and Distance

Proximity and Distance PDF

Author: Yosef Tobi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9047405129

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The central feature of this book is an innovative critical approach, which understands medieval Hebrew poetry not only by revealing its ties with Arabic poetry but also by determining the specific characteristics by which it stubbornly distinguished itself from Arabic poetry.

Proximity and Distance

Proximity and Distance PDF

Author: Joseph Tobi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 900413798X

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The central feature of this book is an innovative critical approach, which understands medieval Hebrew poetry not only by revealing its ties with Arabic poetry but also by determining the specific characteristics by which it stubbornly distinguished itself from Arabic poetry.

Looking Back at al-Andalus

Looking Back at al-Andalus PDF

Author: Alexander Elinson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-02-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9047442725

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Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to Arab hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula.

Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry

Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry PDF

Author: Alessandro Guetta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004169318

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Analysing well-known Hebrew medieval poets from a new, refreshing standpoint and focusing on less known authors and periods, this book shows the maturity of the research in this field. Written in English (and French) the articles make the Hebrew texts more easily available to scholars of comparative literature.

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition PDF

Author: Arie Schippers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9789004098695

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This work deals extensively with the Arabic themes and literary devices used by Hebrew Andalusian poets in 11th century Muslim (and Christian) Spain. Special interest is devoted to the four main poets of the Hebrew Golden Age in Spain, namely Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi.

Wine, Women, & Death

Wine, Women, & Death PDF

Author: Raymond P. Scheindlin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0195129873

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The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. In this delight delightful book, Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each followed by commentary that explains its cultural context.

A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry

A Matter of Geography: A New Perspective on Medieval Hebrew Poetry PDF

Author: Uriah Kfir

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9004363599

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A Matter of Geography deals with medieval secular Hebrew poetry from Spain and elsewhere, based on a “center and periphery” model. It delineates how Spanish school strove for centrality, as well as how the poets from elsewhere coped with it.