"You Have Skirted This Hill Long Enough": The Tension between Rhetoric and History in a Byzantine Piyyut

Yannai, a major liturgical poet of the Byzantine period, generally avoids highly specific references to his contemporary historical situation in his piyyutim (liturgical poems), which were composed for recitation in the synagogues of late antiquity. This lack of unambiguous historical data has made...

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Main Author: Lieber, Laura Suzanne 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 2009, Volume: 80, Pages: 63-114
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