Lament in Jewish Thought

ISBN-13: 9783110553963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 372 str.

Ferber, Ilit

Opis

This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.

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.

O autorze

Ilit Ferber, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Paula Schwebel, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.