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This volume makes available in English for the first time an extremely important group of medieval and Renaissance texts on biblical poetry. The book contains excerpts from seventeen JudaeoArabic and Hebrew texts and includes the work of wellknown figures such as Judah Halevi, Moshe ibn Ezra, Don lsaac Abravanel, and Azariah de' Rossi, as well as lesser-known works that reveal a rich but neglected tradition of critical debate on biblical poetics. The writings presented here date from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries and were produced in three of the main centers of Jewish Spain, Provence, and Italy. Some are excerpts from biblical commentaries, while others are found in historical, philosophical, grammatical, and literary treatises. The book is divided into two parts. Part I consists of an extended essay on medieval and Renaissance views of biblical poetry and rhetoric that highlights the main lines of historical development and suggests relevant connections with modern research on biblical poetry. Each of the translated excerpts in Part ll is preceded by a brief biographical note on the author, an outline of the work from which the excerpt is taken, and a summary of the exce

Author

Berlin, Adele

Publisher

Indiana University Press; Indiana Univ Pr

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585106120

Subjects

Religion, History, Christian