Screen LibraryLament in jewish thought : philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives /
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval iterations to contemporary Yemenite oral lamentations. The volume also includes...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Perspectives on jewish texts and contexts;
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| Summary: |
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval iterations to contemporary Yemenite oral lamentations. The volume also includes four texts on lament by Gershom Scholem, translated here for the first time into English, as well as essays interpreting Scholem's challenging work. |
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1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110339963 |
| Index Number: | B5802 |
| CLC: | I106.9 |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Frequently Used Abbreviations -- Preface -- Bibliography -- Eikhah and the Stance of Lamentation / Ein Menachem: On Lament and Consolation / Bodies Performing in Ruins: The Lamenting Mother in Ancient Hebrew Texts / Women s Oral Laments: Corpus and Text The Body in the Text / Bemerkungen zur Klage / "Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech": Scholem, Benjamin, and Cohen on Lament / The Unfallen Silence: Kinah and the Other Origin of Language / The Silent Syllable: On Franz Rosenzweig s Translation of Yehuda Halevi s Liturgical Poems / Silence, Solitude, and Suicide: Gershom Scholem s Paradoxical Theory of Lamentation / The Role of Lamentation for Scholem s Theory of Poetry and Language / The Ghost of the Poet: Lament in Walter Benjamin s Early Poetry, Theory, and Translation / Words and Corpses: Celan s "Tenebrae" between Gadamer and Scholem / "Movement of Language" and Transience: Lament, Mourning, and the Tradition of Elegy in Early Scholem / Paradoxes of Lament: Benjamin and Hamlet / The Tradition in Ruins: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem on Language and Lament / Translators Introduction / On Lament and Lamentation / Job s Lament / Translation of Job Chapter 3: Job s Lament / Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel s Last Princes / Translation of Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel s Last Princes / A Medieval Lamentation / Translation of Sha ali Serufa: A Medieval Lamentation / Scholem s postscript in the manuscript version / Notes on Contributors. |