Beschreibung
(Liturgical) poetry in motion and performance: late antique piyyuṭ
Rezension
The Jewish community of late antique Palestine produced two great corpora, rabbinic literature and piyyuṭ (liturgical poetry). Tzvi Novick explores the relationship between rabbinic midrash and classical piyyuṭ in two different but complementary ways. The first focuses on features of piyyuṭ that distinguish it, or appear to distinguish it, from rabbinic midrash. The second part considers midrash and piyyuṭ together through the vehicle of the »serial narrative«, a narrative form that binds biblical history together by stringing together instance of the “same” event across multiple time periods.
Tzvi Novick explores the relationship between rabbinic midrash and classical piyyuṭ (liturgical poetry). What are distinctive features of piyyuṭ and what do these two textual corpora have in common?
