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"Your voice like a ram's horn" : themes and texts in traditional Jewish preaching /

"The eighteen studies in this book continue the exploration of the Jewish sermon Saperstein began in his groundbreaking Jewish Preaching 1200-1800. His new research further illustrates the importance of this genre, largely ignored by modern scholarship, as an indispensible resource for understa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Saperstein, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, [1996]
Series:Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 18.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn": Conceptions of Jewish Preaching
  • Preaching for Pesach
  • Jewish Typological Exegesis After Nahmanides
  • Inscribed for Life or Death?
  • Christians and Jews: Some Positive Images
  • Christians and Christianity in the Sermons of Jacob Anatoli
  • Sermons as Evidence for the Popularization of Philosophy in Fifteenth-Century Spain
  • Italian Jewish Preaching: An Overview
  • The Sermon as Art Form: Structure in Morteira's Giv'at Sha'ul
  • Sermons and Jewish Society: The Case of Prague
  • War and Patriotism in Sermons to Central European Jews, 1756-1815
  • "Treatise for the Guidance of Preachers": A Newly Discovered Ars Praedicandi
  • "Make Vows and Pay Them": A Newly Discovered Confraternity Sermon from Spain
  • A Sermon on the 'Aqedah from the Generation of the Expulsion and Its Implications for 1391
  • A Spanish Rabbi on Repentance: Isaac Aboab's Manuscript Sermon for Shabbat Shuvah
  • The Hesped as Historical Record and Art-Form: Saul Levi Morteira's Eulogies for Dr. David Farar
  • "Their Words are Their Memorial": Saul Levi Morteira's Eulogy for Menasseh ben Israel
  • In Praise of an Anti-Jewish Empress: Ezekiel Landau's Eulogy for Maria Theresa.