The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, & the Soul

by Raymond P. Scheindlin

Book Overview

From the tenth century to the thirteenth, the Jews of Spain belonged to a vibrant and relatively tolerant Arabic-speaking society, a sophisticated culture that had a marked effect on Jewish life, thought, artistic tastes, and literary expression. In this companion volume to Wine, Women, and Death, we see how the surrounding Arabic culture influenced the new poetry that was being written for the synagogue service. The Hebrew poems here, accompanied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195129881
• ISBN13: 9780195129885
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"