Contents

pp vii-viii

The contributors

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

List of abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

PART ONE - NEW LINES OF INVESTIGATION

pp 1-2

1 - The study of medieval Karaism, 1989–1999

pp 3-22

2 - Hebrew scholarship in Byzantium

pp 23-37

3 - Hebrew philology in Sefarad: the state of the question

pp 38-59

4 - Some recent developments in the study of medieval Hebrew liturgy

pp 60-74

PART TWO - THE HEBREW LANGUAGE

pp 75-76

5 - The early eastern traditions of Hebrew grammar

pp 77-91

6 - Banner, miracle, trial? Medieval Hebrew lexicography between facts and faith

pp 92-106

7 - The knowledge and practice of Hebrew grammar among Christian scholars in pre-expulsion England: the evidence of ‘bilingual’ Hebrew–Latin manuscripts

pp 107-128

PART THREE - PRAYER AND POETRY

pp 129-130

8 - The origin of the Qaddish

pp 131-137

9 - The journey inward: Yehuda Halevi between Christians and Muslims in Spain, Egypt and Palestine

pp 138-148

10 - Abraham ibn Ezra as a harbinger of changes in secular Hebrew poetry

pp 149-155

11 - O Seville! Ah Castile! Spanish Hebrew dirges from the fifteenth century

pp 156-170

12 - On translating medieval Hebrew poetry

pp 171-186

PART FOUR - THE WORLD OUTSIDE

pp 187-188

13 - Hebrew apologetic and polemical literature

pp 189-209

14 - Biblical commentaries and Christian influence: the case of Gersonides

pp 210-223

15 - Jewish scholarship and Christian tradition in late-medieval Catalonia: Profiat Duran on the art of memory

pp 224-239

Bibliography of the writings of Raphael Loewe

pp 240-245

Index of names

pp 246-247