Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Katie Stott" <kstott AT ualberta.ca>]

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Book Announcement

Gorgias Press would like to announce the following book:

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*       Title: Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P.
Scheindlin 
*       Subtitle: 
*       Author: Michael Rand and Jonathan P. Decter, eds.
*       Series: Gorgias Précis Portfolios 
*       Series Volume: 1
*       ISBN: 978-1-59333-701-8
*       Price: $86
*       Format: Hardback, 6 x 9, 1 vol(s), xxii + 287 + 47 pp.
*       Availability: In Print

Book Description

The studies contained in this volume reflect the broad scope of Raymond
Scheindlin’s professional and intellectual interests, his many years of
friendship with colleagues, and his devotion and commitment to the raising
up of the younger generation of academics. The contributions are in English
and Hebrew, and are made by scholars from the United States, Europe, and
Israel—all places in which Professor Scheindlin has taught and conducted
research over the course of his professional career. Falling under the
general purview of Hebrew and Arabic Letters, they address topics in
Biblical criticism, Medieval Biblical lexicography, Classical and
Post-Classical piyyut, Medieval Hebrew poetry and science, Judeo-Arabic
poetry and epistolography, Classical Arabic poetry and prose, and the
history of Jewish Studies in America. Taken together, they attest not only
to the richness and fruitfulness of Professor Scheindlin’s scholarly
activities, but also to the immense flourishing experienced by the various
sub-specialties of the discipline of Jewish Studies in the second half of
the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Jonathan P. Decter is Assistant Professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor
of Sephardic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at
Brandeis University. He is the author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between
al-Andalus and Christian Europe and several articles. His research interests
include Hebrew literature in the medieval Islamic World, Judeo-Arabic
literature, and Iberian Jewry.

Michael Rand is a graduate of the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at
New York University, and currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Hebrew
and Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author
of
<http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/p-55594-rand-michael-introduction-to-t
he-grammar-of-hebrew-poetry-in-byzantine-palestine.aspx> Introduction to the
Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine.His main field of interest
is Hebrew philology, in particular the interaction of grammar and poetics in
Classical piyyut. Within a wider perspective, he is especially concerned
with the evolution of Hebrew poetry, both as a self-contained
literary/linguistic phenomenon, as well its interaction with other Semitic
traditions.

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