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Dominion built of praise : panegyric and legitimacy among Jews in the medieval Mediterranean /
In Dominion Built of Praise, Jonathan Decter looks at the phenomenon of panegyric in Mediterranean Jewish culture from several overlapping perspectives--social, historical, ethical, poetic, political, and theological--and finds that they depict how representations of Jewish political leadership vari...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
| Colección: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange
- Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture
- Chapter 3. "Humble Like the Humble One": The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy
- Chapter 4. "Sefarad Boasts over Shinar": Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric
- Chapter 5. "A Word Aptly Spoken": The Ethics of Praise
- Chapter 6. "A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .": Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification
- Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology
- Chapter 8. "May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!": Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean
- Chapter 9. The Other "Great Eagle": Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Geniza Manuscripts
- Acknowledgments