DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/412024-03-28T14:54:50Z2024-03-28T14:54:50ZPraying legallyHoltz, Shalomhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/100492024-03-26T14:11:21Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Praying legally
Authors: Holtz, Shalom
Abstract: Explore the lengthy history of legal metaphors in ancient prayer
In biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources, prayer is an opportunity to make one’s case before divine judges. Prayers were formulated using courtroom or trial language, including demands for judgment, confessions, and accusations. The presence of these legal concepts reveals ancient Near Eastern thoughts about what takes place when one prays. Holtz highlights legal concepts that appear in prayers, including the motif of the speakers' oppression in Psalms the possibility of countersuit against God through prayer, and divine attention and inattention as legal responses. By reading ancient prayers together with legal texts, this book shows how
Description: Book2019-01-01T00:00:00ZIn many respects God was closer to Abraham than to MosesCarmy, Shalomhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/100332024-03-21T21:36:26Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: In many respects God was closer to Abraham than to Moses
Authors: Carmy, Shalom
Editors: Kanarfogel, Ephraim; Ktav, D. S.
Abstract: "This book sets forward interesting and less-explored aspects of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings. These essays delve into the Rav's approach toward understanding biblical figures, his views on emotions and intellect, his appreciation of R. Yehudah ha-Levi, his understanding of medieval history, and the implications for modernity" --
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Description: Scholarly book chapter2020-01-01T00:00:00ZReading an Aramaic Qina framed by a biblical one.Bernstein, Moshe J.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/100232024-03-20T21:54:40Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Reading an Aramaic Qina framed by a biblical one.
Authors: Bernstein, Moshe J.
Abstract: The author of the first poem of a manuscript from the Cairo Geniza, CUL T-S H14.64, used the verses in Lamentations 1 as a technical device to frame his poem, while he found a variety of ways to connect the stanzas of the poem with verses from Lamentations and other biblical verses. He linked the stanzas of the poem forward and backward through themes and language that are significant in the poem as a whole. This study also follows the trajectories of both the first- and third-person voices, reflecting on how their interchange might contribute to our understanding of the message of the poem.
Description: Scholarly article2019-01-01T00:00:00ZIntroduction, ‘Singing in the vernacular.Bernstein, Moshe J.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/100222024-03-20T21:52:55Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Introduction, ‘Singing in the vernacular.
Authors: Bernstein, Moshe J.
Abstract: Michael Sokoloff and Yoseph Yahalom’s ground-breaking collection Jewish Palestinian
Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity: Critical Edition with Introduction
and Commentary (JPAPLA),1 contains a broad range of poetic texts in Jewish
Palestinian Aramaic, representing a variety of genres and (presumably) Sitz
im Leben as well. Most of them have not yet been subject to substantial analysis.
At the December 2017 annual conference of the Association for Jewish
Studies (AJS) in Washington, D.C., a session was arranged to deal with some
of this poetry, in an attempt to establish a place for it on the map of ‘Jewish
History and Culture in Late Antiquity’. Entitled ‘Singing in the Vernacular: Jewish
Palestinian Aramaic Poetry in Performance and Interpretation’, the session
presented three approaches to this poetic material: one of a broad nature by
Laura S. Lieber, and two more narrowly focused by Abraham J. (A.J.) Berkovitz
and Moshe J. Bernstein, followed by a response from Michael Swartz. (from Introduction)One of the most significant themes shared by the studies in this issue is intertextuality. Several authors conduct systematic analyses of the relationship between Aramaic poems and their biblical antecedents, while one study argues that the repetition of refrains in Jewish Aramaic poetry has much in common with the practice of public acclamation in the Greco-Roman world. Each of these studies also advances the question of the Sitz im Leben of Jewish Aramaic poetry in Palestine in late antiquity, including the context of its performance. The historical context of these poems is reflected in the way the poets addressed the conditions of their times. This response ends by singling out a number of further questions.
Description: Scholarly article2019-01-01T00:00:00Z