The basic concept of this book is that in spite of the borrowed Arabic poetical values, medieval Hebrew poetry stubbornly distanced itself from Arabic poetry. The conclusive result of an in-depth comparative examination is that Hebrew poetry combined selective Arabic poetical values with ethical Jewish values to create a distinctive poetical school.
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Preface
ix PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Chapter One: Secular Hebrew Poetry in Spain as Courtly Poetry: Is It Indeed?
3 Chapter Two: The Secular Hebrew Poet as Culture Hero in the Middle Ages... 25 PART TWO: GENRES AND THEMES Chapter Three: The Land of Israel and the National Theme in Hebrew Poetry from Sa adia Gaon to Semuel Ha-Nagid
53 Chapter Four: The Religious Element in the War Poems of Semuel Ha-Nagid and in the Arabic Panegyrics in Andalusia
93 Chapter Five: Love in Hebrew Secular Poetry in the Setting of Medieval Arabic Poetry
116 Chapter Six: Music and Musical Instruments in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry: The Poem of Yosef Ibn addiq (Justo) in Praise of Yi_aq ibn Barun
148 Chapter Seven: The Chase as an Allegory for the Wrong and Sufferings in the World as Found in Takemoni by Yehuda Alarizi against the Background of Arabic Poetry
190 PART THREE: POETRY AND WISDOM Chapter Eight: The Beloved Woman as a Metaphor for Divine Wisdom in the Poems of Selomo ibn Gabirol
229 Chapter Nine: Selomo Ibn Gabirol: He That, From His Youth, Chose Wisdom 261 Chapter Ten: Body and Soul in Spanish Hebrew Poetry against the Background of Muslim-Arabic Culture
293 Chapter Eleven: The Hebrew Transcription of Risalat al-_atimi: A comparative study between sayings attributed to Aristotle and poetic verses attributed to Mutanabbi (Cambridge, T.S., Arabic, 45.2)
321 PART FOUR: ARABIC RHETORIC AND POETRY IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY Chapter Twelve: Preliminary Study in _ilyat al-Mu_a_ara [_M] by Abu Ali Muammad al-_atimi: The 'Lost' Source of Mose Ibn Ezra for His Kitab al-Mu_a_ara wa-al-Mudhakara [KMM]
355 Chapter Thirteen: Yehuda Ha-Levi's Hebrew Translations of Arabic Poems
369 PART FIVE: CRITICISM OF VERSE Chapter Fourteen: Yehuda Ha-Levi's Attitude Toward Arabic and Hebrew Secular Poetry and Literature in the Kuzari
389 Chapter Fifteen: Maimonides' Attitude towards Secular Poetry, Secular Arab and Hebrew Literature, Liturgical Poetry, and towards Their Cultural Environment
422 Chapter Sixteen: Sem _ov Ibn Falaqera's Critique of Poetry
467 Bibliography
483 Index... 511
