Studia Judaica107-The Poet and the World

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hat Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) herausragende israelische Gelehrte in englisch- und deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen in Europa und Nordamerika bekannt gemacht. Die zu diesem Zweck von ihm begründete Reihe Studia Judaica bietet heute ein Forum für wissenschaftliche Studien und Editionen aus allen Epochen der jüdischen Religionsgeschichte. The contributions to this volume analyze how pre-modern Jewish poets related to the worlds they lived in and how their audiences related to them. It is based on a wide understanding of "world," as including not only the material world and all aspects of the man-made world, that is society, culture and language, but also the spiritual and the emotional world. Studies focus on single poets or small groups of poets, on specific relations to the world, such as geographical notions, the attitude towards traditional Jewish culture or that to non-Jewish cultures, or on reception history. The collection honors Wout van Bekkum, an important scholar in the field of Hebrew poetry.