Theology and Poetry: Studies in the Mediaeval Piyyut (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Hardcover
This volume provides texts and English translations, with commentary, of Hebrew liturgical poems from the 6th to the 14th century. The poems, emanating from different Jewish communities, often express personal as well as traditional theological views.
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This reprint edition is an indispensible introduction to piyyut (medieval liturgical poetry) for all students of Jewish thought and culture.
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Rabbi Jakob J. Petuchowski, PhD (z"l) (1925 1991) was raised in Berlin, the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi and a member of an Orthodox community until age fourteen, when he escaped the Nazis on one of the last transports rescuing Jewish children. After a brief stay in England, he moved to the United States, and attended the Hebrew Union College, where he was ordained, earned a PhD and served as faculty member instructing generations of students in liturgy, rabbinics, and theology. He wrote or edited over thirty books, including the classic treatment of prayer book reform in Europe.
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- PublisherFairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0838630324
- ISBN 13 9780838630327
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages153
- EditorJacob J. Petuchowski
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THEOLOGY AND POETRY: STUDIES IN THE MEDIEVAL PIYYUT. [The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization]
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