Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts - Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 9

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.

About the author

Joachim Yeshaya, Ph.D. (2009), University of Groningen, is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven. He is the author of Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt (Brill, 2011) and Poetry and Memory in Karaite Prayer (Brill, 2014).

Elisabeth Hollender, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cologne, habilitation (2001), Duisburg University, is Professor of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on piyyut and piyyut commentary, including Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript (Brill, 2005).

Product details

• Assisted by: Elisabeth Hollender (Editor), Joachim Yeshaya (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2016
• EAN: 9789004335110
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33511-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 600 g
• Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions