Literary canonization at work: the authority of aggadic Midrash and the evolution of havdalah poetry in the Genizah

Applying a social interaction approach to the study of the reception of different literary genres, this article focuses on an unnoticed Judeo-Arabic Genizah fragment whose contents deal with the relative cultural value of midrash and piyyut in medieval Mediterranean society. The fragment describes a...

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Main Author: Lavi-Levḳovits, Mosheh (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2013]
In: AJS review
Year: 2013, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-313
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Literature / Reception / Authority / Midrash / Haggadah / Piyut / Liturgy / Poetry
B Rabbi / Synagogue / Allusion / Talmûd bavlî
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
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