Jonathan Decter

Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter looks at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives-social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological-and finds that they depict how representations of Jewish political leadership varied across space and evolved over time.

Produktdetails

• Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250411
• ISBN-10: 0812250419
• Artikelnr.: 52423053

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Decter is the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He is author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange
Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture
Chapter 3. "Humble Like the Humble One": The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy
Chapter 4. "Sefarad Boasts over Shinar": Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric
Chapter 5. "A Word Aptly Spoken": The Ethics of Praise
Chapter 6. "A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . . ": Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification
Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology
Chapter 8. "May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!": Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean
Chapter 9. The Other "Great Eagle": Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments