Heber the Kenite Deceives a Poor Yokel: A Literary Reading of the Twenty-First Gate in Yehuda Al-Ḥarizi's Sefer Taḥkemoni (Compared to its Arabic Source, Al-Hamadhāni's Al-Maqama Al-Baghdādiyya)

This paper proposes a close-reading of one of the best-known maqamas in Yehuda Al-Ḥarizi's Sefer Taḥkemoni, which is here compared with the original Arabic version, Al-Hamadhāni's Al-Maqama Al-Baghdādiyya. This reading is based on the hypothesis that some of the well-known medieval rhymed...

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Main Author: Einat-Nov, Idit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2022
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 63, Pages: 165-175
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Irony / Polysemy / Judaism / Middle Ages
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
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Summary:This paper proposes a close-reading of one of the best-known maqamas in Yehuda Al-Ḥarizi's Sefer Taḥkemoni, which is here compared with the original Arabic version, Al-Hamadhāni's Al-Maqama Al-Baghdādiyya. This reading is based on the hypothesis that some of the well-known medieval rhymed Hebrew stories are based on uncertainty as a poetic principle and that this principle can explain (and be explained by) their frequent use of contradictory elements and varied forms of the ironic, the grotesque, and the ambiguous.
ISSN:2158-1681
Contains:Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2022.0008