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Author Hollender, Elisabeth

Title Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (412 pages)
Series Studia Judaica, v. 42
Studia Judaica, v. 42
Contents Frontmatter; Table of Contents; 1 Ashkenazic Piyyut Commentary; 2 Commentators and Compilers; 3 Linguistic Glosses; 4 Intertextual References; 5 Medieval Elements in Piyyut Commentary; 6 Poets and Poetics in Piyyut Commentary; 7 Methods of Compilation; 8 Models of Compilation: Structure and Intention; 9 Conclusions, Questions, and Perspectives; Backmatter
Summary In medieval Ashkenaz piyyut commentary was a popular genre that consisted of?open texts that continued to be edited by almost each copyist. Although some early commentators can be identified, it is mainly compilers that are responsible for the transmitted form of text. Based on an ample corpus of Ashkenazic commentaries the study provides a taxonomy of commentary elements, including linguistic explanations, treatment of hypotexts, and medieval elements, and describes their use by different commentators and compilers. It also analyses the main techniques of compilation and the various ways th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index
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Subject Hebrew poetry, Medieval -- Germany -- History and criticism
Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew -- Germany -- History and criticism
Judaism -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Piyutim -- History and criticism
RELIGION / Judaism / Theology.
Hebrew poetry, Medieval.
Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.
Judaism.
Piyutim.
Germany.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007049993
ISBN 9783110204094
3110204096
1282196111
9781282196117
9786612196119
6612196114
3119160512
9783119160513