Three Aramaic Piyyutim for Purim: Text, Context, and Interpretation
This article presents a critical edition of three Aramaic piyyutim for Purim. The piyyutim are unique in that they were not written in Hebrew, the overwhelmingly dominant language of classical piyyutim, but in a biblicizing register of Aramaic. This puts these piyyutim in conversation with other for...
| Subtitles: | Singing in the Vernacular: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Aramaic studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 198-255 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Liturgy
/ Early Judaism
/ Palestinian Aramaic
/ Poetics
/ Purim
/ Polemics
/ Christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (JPA) poems
B anti-Christian polemic B Piyyut B Liturgical poetry B Purim |
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| Summary: | This article presents a critical edition of three Aramaic piyyutim for Purim. The piyyutim are unique in that they were not written in Hebrew, the overwhelmingly dominant language of classical piyyutim, but in a biblicizing register of Aramaic. This puts these piyyutim in conversation with other forms of Jewish Aramaic poetry, namely poems written in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (JPA). The article includes a detailed analysis of the relation between the JPA poems for Purim and the piyyutim presented herein, and it argues that overt anti-Christian polemics are common to both. The Aramaic piyyutim presented here thus provide a unique nexus between JPA poetry and classical piyyut. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01702006 |