Hebrew Poetry from Late Antiquity - Bekkum, Wout van
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This text edition of liturgical poems of the synagogue poet Yehudah provides a unique corpus of Hebrew compositions based on manuscript fragments from the Genizah collection. Yehudah's poetry reflects the importance of Hebrew poetry from the liturgy of the synagogue in early Palestinian Judaism. This study highlights the historical and literary context of Yehudah's poetry against the background of Byzantine Jewry.

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This text edition of liturgical poems of the synagogue poet Yehudah provides a unique corpus of Hebrew compositions based on manuscript fragments from the Genizah collection. Yehudah's poetry reflects the importance of Hebrew poetry from the liturgy of the synagogue in early Palestinian Judaism. This study highlights the historical and literary context of Yehudah's poetry against the background of Byzantine Jewry.
Autorenporträt
Wout Jac. Van Bekkum, Ph.D. (1988), University of Groningen, teaches Post-Biblical Hebrew in the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Groningen. He is also Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Amsterdam. He has been involved in the research of Hebrew religious poetry since the late 1970s. His publications include two editions of a medieval Hebrew Alexander Romance and articles on Hebrew linguistics and Jewish exegesis.