Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late

Antiquity
Translations and Commentaries. Cambridge Genizah
Studies Series Volume 8
Print Publication Date:
Author: Laura Suzanne Lieber
10 Apr 2018

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In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity, Laura Suzanne Lieber offers
• E-Book
annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th • Hardback

century C.E. in the Land of Israel, along with commentaries and

Page Count:  
introductions. The poems celebrate a range of occasions from the ritual year
ISBN: 9789004365896
and the life-cycle: Passover, Shavuot (Pentacost), the Ninth of Av, Purim, the
eISBN:  
New Moon of Nisan, the conclusion of the Torah, weddings, and funerals.
Publisher: BRILL

Written in the vernacular of the Jews of living in Palestine after the

Series:
Christianization of the Roman Empire, these works offer insight into lived Études sur le judaïsme
médiéval, Volume: 75
Jewish experience during a pivotal age. The volume contextualizes the
Subjects: Literature &
individual works so that readers from a range of backgrounds can appreciate
Linguistics, Jewish Stud­
the formal, linguistic, exegetical, theological, and performative creativity of ies, History & Culture,
these works. Jewish Studies, Authors,
Texts, Literature, Ancient
Near East and Egypt

Readership

All interested in Jewish religious life and culture in Late Antiquity, including  

readers approaching the material from perspectives of Rabbinics, Early

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