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Poetry and memory in Karaite prayer : the liturgical poetry of the Karaite poet Moses ben Abraham Darʻī /

Yeshaya, Joachim J. M. S.

Poetry and memory in Karaite prayer : the liturgical poetry of the Karaite poet Moses ben Abraham Darʻī / by Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya. - 1 online resource. - Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, T. 61 0169-815X ; Karaite texts and studies ; v. 6 . - Études sur le judaïsme médiéval. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-I, ISBN: 9789004262447. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Introduction / 1 Karaite Liturgy and Poetry / 2 Language, Rhetoric, Prosody / 3 Thematic Elements / 4 Edition / Conclusion / Alphabetical List of Poems Nos. 1–96 / Alphabetical List of Biblical Names / Variant Readings / Bibliography / Index of Names and Subjects / Plates / Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya -- Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya.

In Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer Joachim Yeshaya offers an edition of liturgical poems which the Karaite poet Moses Darʿī composed in twelfth-century Egypt as introductory poems for the Torah readings on each Sabbath. The Hebrew text and Judaeo-Arabic heading of each poem are provided in the original order attested in the manuscript NLR Evr. I 802, dated to the fifteenth century. Every poem comes with a commentary section consisting of English commentary essays and bilingual (Hebrew / English) line-by-line annotations. In the conclusion following this edition, Joachim Yeshaya demonstrates how Darʿī’s liturgical poems are among the earliest examples of the introduction of poetry, Andalusian Rabbanite poetical norms, and the “memory” of being exiled from Jerusalem into Karaite prayer.

9789004262119

10.1163/9789004262119 DOI

2013030367


Darʻī, Moses ben Abraham, active 12th century-13th century --Criticism and interpretation.


Hebrew poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.--Egypt

PJ5050.D34 / Z95 2014

892.4/12