Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin: 1 (Gorgias Précis Portfolios) - Hardcover

Rand, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593337019 ISBN 13: 9781593337018

Publisher: Gorgias Press, 2007

Synopsis

This volume contains contributions, in English and Hebrew, on the following topics: Biblical criticism, Medieval Biblical lexicography, Classical and Post-Classical piyyut, Medieval Hebrew poetry and science, Judeo-Arabic poetry and epistolography, Classical Arabic poetry and prose, and the history of Jewish Studies in America.

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About the Author

Jonathan P Decter is Assistant Professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. His research interests include Hebrew literature in the medieval Islamic World, Judeo-Arabic literature, and Iberian Jewry. Michael Rand is a graduate of the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine. His main field of interest is Hebrew philology, in particular the interaction of grammar and poetics in Classical piyyut.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593337019
• ISBN 13: 9781593337018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Decter Jonathan