Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts

xiv, (2), 324pp. Index. Text in English with some Hebrew. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. A fine, as new copy. This collection of essays offers an inquiry into the complex interaction between exegesis and poetry that characterized medieval and early modern Karaite and Rabbanite treatment of the Bible in the Islamic world, the Byzantine Empire, and Christian Europe. Discussing a variety of topics that are usually associated with either exegesis or poetry in conjunction with the two fields, the authors analyze a wide array of interactions between biblical sources and their interpretive layers, whether in prose exegesis or in multiple forms of poetry and rhymed prose. Of particular relevance are mechanisms for the production and transmission of exegetical traditions, including the participation of Jewish poets in these processes, an issue that serves as a leitmotif throughout this collection. (Publisher) Contents: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Elisabeth Hollender and Joachim Yeshaya --; "Singing Songs about Songs": Biblical and Exegetical Interconnections in Three Hebrew Hymns for Y?m Vayy?sha? (the Seventh Day of Passover) /; Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata --; "Many Beautiful Meanings Can Be Drawn from Such a Comparison": On the Medieval Interaction View of Biblical Metaphor /; Sivan Nir and Meira Polliack --; "The Distinction of Creative Ability" (Fa?l al-ibd??): From Poetics to Legal Hermeneutics in Moses Ibn Ezra /; Mordechai Cohen --; The Biblical Exegesis of Abraham Ibn Ezra as a Hermeneutical Device: A Literary Riddle as a Case Study /; Haviva Ishay --; The Uses of Scripture in Zechariah al-??hir?'s S?fer ha-m?s?r /; Adena Tanenbaum --; The Interplay of Poetry and Exegesis in Judah Hadassi's Eshk?l ha-k?fer /; Daniel J. Lasker --; Aaron ben Joseph's Poem for P?r?shat Yitr? Considered in Light of His Torah Commentary S?fer ha-mi???r /; Joachim Yeshaya --; Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Karaite Exegetical Challenge /; Saskia Dönitz --; The Methods of Judah Gibbor's Biblical Exegesis in Min?at Y?h?d? /; Philip Miller --; "The One Who Defeats the Power of the Stars": Medieval Exegetics in Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Poetry /; Riikka Tuori --; Berakha ben Joseph's Commentary on the Piyy???m by Aaron ben Joseph /; Elisabeth Hollender --; General Index. (OCLC) Volume 68 in the Brill series "Etudes sur la Judaisme Medieval." (EJM). Also Volume 9 in the "Karaite Texts and Studies" series. …