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Scheindlin Raymond P.. Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life.Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society,1986. x, 204 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Ross Brann
Ross Brann
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Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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AJS Review , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 119 - 132
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1990

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References

This review article was accepted for publication in 1987 and scheduled to appear in Vol. 13. The editors regret that its publication was delayed.

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2. The rhetoric found in liturgical and devotional poetry is, in theory, purposeful rather than playful. It is rhetoric in service of a higher ideal rather than rhetoric for its own sake.

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4. A similar argument can be made to explain the poets′ fondness for tajnis (paranomasia) mannerisms (cf. Moses ibn Ezra's Sefer ha′anaq), epigrams (cf. the Nagid's Ben mishlei), and other such “exquisite trifles.”

5. The transmission of secular Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages is studied bySchirmann, Hayyim, “Secular Hebrew Poetry in the Geniza Manuscripts” [Heb.], in Te′uda I: Cairo Geniza Studies, ed. Friedman, M. (Tel Aviv, 1980), pp. 97–123.Google Scholar See alsoYahalom, Joseph and Benabu, Isac, “Towards a History of the Transmission of Secular Hebrew Poetry from Spain”[Heb.], Tarbiz 54 (1985): 245–262.Google Scholar

6. New critical editions of the diwans (that is, the secular poetry) of Judah ha-Levi and Abraham ibn Ezra are major desiderata

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11. Two interesting applications of this perspective areYahalom, Joseph, “Poetry and Society in Egypt: An Examination Based on the Attitude to Judah ha-Levi's Secular Poetry” [Heb.], Zion 45 (1980): 286–298,Google Scholar andScheindlin, Raymond P., “Fawns of the Palace and Fawns of the Field,” Prooftexts 6, no. 3 (1986): 189–203Google Scholar

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