Jonathan Decter

Dominion Built of Praise

Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

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 varied across space and evolved over time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250411
• ISBN-10: 0812250419
• Artikelnr.: 52423053

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Decter

Inhaltsangabe

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
Index
Acknowledgments