'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror' write by . This book was released on 2020-03-23. 'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is a collection of studies in the cultural history of al-Andalus in honor of Ross Brann on his 70th birthday.
The Donkey King
The Donkey King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Donkey King write by Emily Selove. This book was released on 2023-12-21. The Donkey King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.
Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer
Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer write by Naftali S. Cohn. This book was released on 2024-06-07. Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history, functions, and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco, Elisheva Carlebach, Ezra Chwat, Evelyn M. Cohen, Naftali S. Cohn, William Cutter, Yaacob Dweck, Talya Fishman, Steven D. Fraade, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Martha Himmelfarb, Marc Hirshman, Tamar Kadari, Israel Knohl, Susanne Klingenstein, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jon D. Levenson, Paul Mandel, Annett Martini, Jordan S. Penkower, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Seth Schwartz, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Peter Stallybrass, Josef Stern, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, and Joseph Yahalom.
The Dream of the Poem
The Dream of the Poem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dream of the Poem write by . This book was released on 2009-01-10. The Dream of the Poem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom. The Dream of the Poem traces the arc of the entire period, presenting some four hundred poems by fifty-four poets, and including a panoramic historical introduction, short biographies of each poet, and extensive notes. (The original Hebrew texts are available on the Princeton University Press Web site.) By far the most potent and comprehensive gathering of medieval Hebrew poems ever assembled in English, Cole's anthology builds on what poet and translator Richard Howard has described as "the finest labor of poetic translation that I have seen in many years" and "an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us." The Dream of the Poem is, Howard says, "a crowning achievement."
The Song of Songs Through the Ages
The Song of Songs Through the Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Song of Songs Through the Ages write by Annette Schellenberg. This book was released on 2023-04-27. The Song of Songs Through the Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.
