Full Description
"Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture" aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium - and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The yearbook "Zutot" serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. "Zutot" covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines - literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history - and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.
Contents
Antiquity: On Jewish Metronymics in the Graeco-Roman Period; J.J. Price. His Days Shall be One Hundred and Twenty Years: Genesis 6:3 in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity; P.W. Horst. Poetry and Piyyut: Qumran Poetry and Piyyut: Some Observations on Hebrew Poetic Traditions in Biblical and Post-Biblical Times; W.-J.van Bekkum A New Rahat by Saadia Gaon; T. Beeri. Lyric and Liturgy in the Gabiriolian Tradition; J. Yahalom. A Muwashshah from the Genizah; A. Schippers. Flora and Fauna in Medieval Piyyut-Commentary; E. Hollender. Middle Ages: Why Medieval Hebrew Studies? Some Thoughts on Stefan C. Reif's Inaugural Lecture; I.E. Zwiep. A Letter of Greetings to R. Hayyim ben Hanan'el ha-Dayyan from the Geniza; P.B. Fenton. Abraham ibn Ezra: Between Tradition and Philology; A. Saenz-Badillos. From Jacob or Esau? to Has the Messiah Come? Controversies between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Bible Exegesis; H. Trautner-Kromann. Maimonides: Logic to Interpretation: Maimonides' Use of al-Farabi's Model of Metaphor; M.Z. Cohen. Four Implicit Quotations of Philosophical Sources in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed; G. Freudenthal. More on Maimonides on Music; E. Seroussi. Books and Manuscripts: The Greek Glosses of the Fitzwilliam Museum Bible; N.de Lange. An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium; J. Olszowy-Schlanger. Abraham ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhmah: a Mini-Discovery; R. Fontaine. A Hidden Treasure in the Athias Cabinet, or Quid Novum in Armariolo Athii; A.K. Offenberg. An Unknown Passover Haggadah by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in the Library of Blickling Hall; E.G.L. Schrijver. Modern and Contemporary: The Problems of Jewish Studies; M. Goodman. The Twilight between Scholarship and Mysticism; J.H. Laenan. Soiree bei Kohn: Jewish Elements in the Repertoire of Hermann Leopoldi; N.G. Jacobs. The Writer Who Wrote More than He Meant to Write: On Arthur Miller's Broken Glass; B. Baanders. Corrigenda: Gruschka, R. and M. Aptroot. Offenberg, A.K.
