"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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Main Author: Lieber, Laura Suzanne 1972- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: College 2009
In: 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
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
TE Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Hymn
B Song
B Jüdische Liturgie
B Poetics
Parallel Edition:Electronic