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Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Volume 2by Graham Davies; J. K. Aitken; D. R. de Lacey; P. A. Smith; J. Squirrel
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 126.00This second volume provides a comprehensive collection of the numerous texts in ancient Hebrew outside the Bible which have recently become known to scholars. The concordance provides an easy way to discover which Hebrew words and proper names occur in non-biblical sources and helps to widen the basis for Hebrew language study. more...
Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granadaby Ann Brener
BRILL 2005; US$ 191.00This study focuses on the earliest period of creativity in the life of Judah Halevi (1075-1141), the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, and offers a portrait of a unique circle of Hebrew poets centering on the Muslim city-kingdom of Granada. more...
Iberian Jewish Literatureby Jonathan P. Decter
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 28.00This stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter ... more...
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyesby Esperanza Alfonso
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 44.95This book examines Jewish views towards Islam and Muslims in Al-Andalus during the early Middle Ages. more...
Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetryby Willem van der Meer
Continuum International Publishing 1988; US$ 170.00This volume is intended as an introduction to a new method of structural analysis of biblical and Canaanite poetry. In its initial form the method was developed by Pieter van der Lugt in his Dutch dissertation Strofische structuren in de bijbels-hebreeuwse poëzie, written under the guidance of Johannes de Moor who himself contributed a number of widely scattered articles on the subject. A growing number of enthusiastic supporters, most of them alumni of the Kampen School of Theology, demonstrated the usefulness of the method in various studies published in Dutch. Because we realize that this way of presenting a new approach might not succeed in eliciting" the international discussion we believe it deserves, we decided to present our method... more...
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492by Peter Cole
Princeton University Press 2007; US$ 24.95Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom. The Dream of the Poem traces the arc of the entire period, presenting some four hundred poems by fifty-four poets, and including a panoramic historical introduction, short biographies of each poet, and extensive notes. (The original Hebrew texts... more...
Yehuda Haleviby Hillel Halkin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 12.99A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry. Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Poet, philosopher, and physician, he is known today for both his religious and secular verse, including his famed “songs of Zion,” and for The Kuzari , an elucidation of Judaism in dialogue form. Hillel Halkin brilliantly evokes the fascinating world of eleventh- and twelfth-century Andalusian Spain in which Halevi lived and discusses the influences that formed him. Relying on the astonishing discoveries of the Cairo Geniza, he pieces together the... more...
Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetryby Alessandro Guetta; Masha Itzhaki
BRILL 2008; US$ 175.00From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluna, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. This work analyses the different themes and authors of this tradition, providing fresh insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study. more...
The Secular Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavliby Wout Jac. van Bekkum
BRILL 2006; US$ 138.00A collection of Elazar's poetry, which contains more than four hundred compositions with a preponderance of panegyrics, laments, homonymic poems, and epigrams. This critical edition of a manuscript offers much literary and historical information about Baghdadi Jewry in the days before and during the Mongol invasion of 1258. more...
The Fall of a Sparrowby Dina Porat; Elizabeth Yuval
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 65.00The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. more...









