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Among the articles included in this Hebrew-English anthology are: . The Hebrew Manuscript as Source for the Study of History and Literature . A Fifteenth Century Hebrew Book List . Rashi's Commentary on the Pentateuch and on the Five Scrolls (Venice, 1538) . One Hundred Years of the Genizah Discovery and Research in the United States . Building a Great Judaica Library - At What Price? . The Liturgy of the Rothschild Mahzor . Two Philosophical Passages in the Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Isaac Ibn Giat . The New Jewish Theological Seminary Library Prof. Menahem Schmelzer is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature and Jewish Bibliography at The Jewish Theological Seminary. He has been a full-time member of the JTS faculty since 1961, and served as Librarian from 1964 to 1987. In addition to writing numerous articles and reviews for scholarly journals, Prof.. Schmelzer was Associate Division Editor of the "Modern Jewish Scholarship" section of Encyclopaedia Judaica. He has lectured at the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1999, he was the recipient of an honorary degree from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. He was appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Senior Scholar at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress for a four-month period in 2004.
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reviewed Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Medieval Hebrew Poetry on June 08, 2016
Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Medieval Hebrew Poetry
This introduction to Latin literature will be especially useful to undergraduates coming to the Latin classics (whether in the original or translation) for the first time. The book's chief merit is the manner in which it sets various works of Latin literature in their cultural context, revealing how products of Latin literature, while often being modeled on Greek literary antecedents, are uniquely reflective of the values and ideals of the Romans.
The author also deals with the manner in which certain famous Latin stories are handled in later traditions (e.g., her discussion of Renaissance paintings depicting the rape of Lucretia, a story in Book I of Livy's history). A whole book could be written on the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on later (Renaissance) painters.
Also addressed in various places are important critical issues that have occupied scholars of Latin literature in more recent times.
This little volume contains the following chapters:
1. Virgil and the Meaning of the Aeneid
2. Role models for Roman women and men in Livy
3. What is Latin literature?
4. What does studying Latin literature involve?
5. Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity
6. Performance and spectacle, life and death
7. Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons
8. Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery
9. Writing 'real' lives
10. Introspection and individual identity
11. Literary texture and intertextuality
12.Metapoetics
13. Allegory
14. Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature
15. Building Rome and Building Roman literature
Appendix A
Extract From Darkness Visible by W.R. Johnson
Appendix B
Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill
List of Authors and Texts
Time-line
List of translations used / adapted
Index of Names and Topics
Index of Passages quoted.
In her chapter on the Aeneid, the author provides an excellent summary of the critical battle that scholars have waged for decades concerning Aeneas' killing of Turnus in Aeneid 12. Is this controversial climactic scene "pro-Augustan" or "anti-Augustan"? Braund musters the arguments for both sides, along with passages from other books of the poem, political considerations, and viewpoints from Roman philosophical school that are relevant to the discussion.
Each chapter concludes with a short section entitled "Further Reading and Study" in which she discusses recent scholarly articles and books that have opened new critical avenues.
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