"You have skirted this hill long enough". The tension between rhetoric and history in a Byzantine Piyyut
Yannai, a major liturgical poet of the Byzantine period, generally avoids highly specific references to his contemporary historical situation in his piyyutim (liturgical poems), which were composed for recitation in the synagogues of late antiquity. This lack of unambiguous historical data has made...
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Language: | English |
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College
2009
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 80, Pages: 63-114 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Byzantine Empire
/ History 395-1453
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RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament TE Middle Ages |
Further subjects: | B
Hymn
B Song B Jüdische Liturgie B Poetics |
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