Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer : The Liturgical Poetry of the Karaite Poet Moses ben Abraham Darʻī. Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 6.
Title:
Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer : The Liturgical Poetry of the Karaite Poet Moses ben Abraham Darʻī. Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 6.
Author:
Yeshaya, Joachim.
ISBN:
9789004262119
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (340 pages)
Series:
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; v.61
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Transliteration of Arabic -- Transliteration of Hebrew -- Introduction -- Chapter One Karaite Liturgy and Poetry -- 1.1 Karaite Prayer and Liturgy -- 1.2 Karaite Liturgical Poetry before Aaron ben Joseph -- 1.3 Moses Dar'ī's Poems and the Pentateuch Portions -- Chapter Two Language, Rhetoric, Prosody -- 2.1 Hebrew Language, Style, and Rhetoric -- 2.2 Poetic Personae -- 2.2.1 God as Speaker -- 2.2.2 People of Israel -- 2.2.3 Poet-Precentor -- 2.3 Prosodic Features, Poetic Forms, Name Acrostics -- 2.4 Wazn Indications: Judah ha-Levi as Poetic Role-Model? -- Chapter Three Thematic Elements -- 3.1 Praise of God -- 3.2 The Holiness of the Sabbath Day -- 3.3 The Covenant and the People of Israel -- 3.4 Moses, Mount Sinai, and the Giving of the Torah -- 3.5 Destruction and Rebuilding of Jerusalem and Temple -- 3.6 Suffering of Israel in Exile -- 3.7 The Others: Christians and Muslims -- 3.8 Penitential Themes -- 3.9 Longing for the Realization of Deliverance -- Chapter Four Edition -- 4.1 Genesis -- 4.2 Exodus -- 4.3 Leviticus -- 4.4 Numbers -- 4.5 Deuteronomy -- Conclusion -- Alphabetical List of Poems Nos. 1-96 -- Alphabetical List of Biblical Names -- Variant Readings: To Leon Weinberger, Jewish Poet in Muslim Egypt: Moses Dar'ī's Hebrew Collection -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Plates.
Abstract:
In Edited byPoetry and Memory in Karaite PrayerEdited by Joachim Yeshaya offers an edition of liturgical poems composed by the twelfth-century Egyptian Karaite poet Moses Darʻī, which are analyzed as early examples of the introduction of poetry and "memory" into Karaite prayer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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