Giving a Diamond : Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Bekkum, Wout Jac. van and Naoya Katsumat and Joseph Yahalom (editors). Giving a Diamond : Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2011. First edition. Octavo. vi, 328pp. Text in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Green boards with red spine label, lettered in white. Illustrated with a color photo frontispiece and a portrait of Yahalom, plus 2 b&w text photos.
A fine, as new copy.

This volume presents fifteen essays in honor of Joseph Yahalom on a variety of subjects, mainly in the field of Hebrew (liturgical) poetry, poetics, and literature from the early Byzantine period to the Middle Ages.

Contents: Giving a Diamond; Copyright; Contents; Biography; Bibliography; Planets in Ancient Hebrew Literature; Translation and the Comprehensibility of Early Piyyut; Figurative Language in Early Piyyut; The Poetics of Yannai’s Sixth: Between Scripture, God, and Congregation; Piyyut as Poetics, The Example of Yannai’s Qedushta for Deut. 6:4; A Third Dew Shiv’Ata by Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir; Congregational Participation within the Biblical Story in the Yotser Poems of Shlomo Suliman; Concerning the Terminology of Al-Harizi’s Virtues Debate.

Part of the series: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval; v. 49 (51617) $95