The Experience of Jewish Liturgy - Studies Dedicated to Menahem Schmelzer

Menahem Schmelzer, widely recognized for his expertise in Jewish manuscripts and piyyut, has also influenced Jewish liturgical research of the past half century. This collection of sixteen academic studies, by Israeli, European, and American scholars, honors Schmelzer's contribution. The contributors represent three generations, and their topics and methods testify to the vast subject area that Jewish liturgy has become. The articles explore a wide variety of texts and ritual occasions, the relationship between text and worship experience, and implications for related areas such as mysticism; most apply the methods of other subject areas such as liguistics to liturgical study and its implications for related fields.

About the author

Debra Reed Blank, Ph.D. (Rabbinics and Jewish Liturgy, Jewish Theological Seminary), is a Visiting Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Debra Reed Blank (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2011
• EAN: 9789004201354
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20135-4
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism