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Voice Like a Ram's Horn
Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching
Marc Saperstein |
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eighteen studies in this book continue the exploration of the Jewish sermon
that Saperstein began in his groundbreaking Jewish
Preaching 1200-1800. His new research further
illustrates the importance of this genre, largely ignored by modern scholarship,
as an indispensable resource for understanding Jewish history, spirituality,
and thought from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the Emancipation
in Europe.
The first half of the book presents thematic studies.
Saperstein explores the most important occasions for traditional rabbinic
preaching — the Days of Awe and the Passover season. In the second
section, he presents newly discovered sermonic texts to explore a full panoply
of issues relating to historical context and genre. All are published for
the first time with his annotated translation accompanying the Hebrew original. |
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Marc
Saperstein is Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought
and Director of the Program in Jewish and Near Eastern Studies at Washington
university in St. Louis. Previously he served for nine years on the faculty
at Harvard, holding the first regular position in Jewish Studies at Harvard
Divinity School. |
