Giving a Diamond: Essays in Honor of Joseph Yahalom on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

This volume presents fifteen essays in honor of Joseph Yahalom on a variety of subjects, mainly in the field of Hebrew (liturgical) poetry, poetics, and literature from the early Byzantine period to the Middle Ages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Biography Bibliography Reimund Leicht Planets in Ancient Hebrew Literature Michael D. Swartz Translation and the Comprehensibility of Early Piyyut Ophir Munz-Manor Figurative Language in Early Piyyut Tzvi Novick The Poetics of Yannai's Sixth: Between Scripture, God, and Congregation Wout van Bekkum and Naoya Katsumata Piyyut as Poetics, The Example of Yannai's Qedushta for Deut. 6:4 Michael Rand A Third Dew Shiv'Ata by Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir Avi Shmidman Congregational Participation within the Biblical Story in the Yotser Poems of Shlomo Suliman Jonathan P. Decter Concerning the Terminology of Al-Harizi's Virtues Debate Peter Sh. Lehnardt Shema Meni Refuot Ha-Gewiyya Ve-Nafshekha Bo Tehi Omda Ve-Hayya: A Didactical Poem of a Regimen Sanitatis according to Maimonides by Jehuda Al-Harizi Paul B. Fenton K. Ad-Durr Al-Manzum : A Sufi Collection of Moral Aphorisms in Judaeo-Arabic Adena Tanenbaum Polemics Real and Imagined in Zechariah Aldahiri's Sefer Ha-Musar Elisabeth Hollender Late Ashkenazic Qinot in the Nuremberg Mahzor Susan L. Einbinder Moses De Roquemaure: Poetry, Polemic and Conversion Javier Castano A Fifteenth Century Letter Addressed to the Dayyanim of Zaragoza Geoffrey Khan A Poem in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj