{"title":"Arabic Didactic Verse and Hebrew Poetry in the Middle East","authors":"Omri Livnat","doi":"10.1163/18750214-0000010045","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the relationship between Arabic didactic verse and Hebrew poetry in the early 10th-century Middle East. Scholars have argued that Arabic didactic verse served as a model for Hebrew poets at the beginning of the 10th century and that, allegedly, this was one of the earliest signs of Arabic poetry’s influence on Hebrew poets. By surveying Arabic didactic verse and two Hebrew poems ostensibly composed following it (the first is commonly attributed to Nissi al-Nahrawānī and the other is by Saadiah Gaon), this article argues that there is no indication of a connection between the Arabic model and Hebrew poetry from this early period.</p>","PeriodicalId":40667,"journal":{"name":"Zutot","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zutot","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18750214-0000010045","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article examines the relationship between Arabic didactic verse and Hebrew poetry in the early 10th-century Middle East. Scholars have argued that Arabic didactic verse served as a model for Hebrew poets at the beginning of the 10th century and that, allegedly, this was one of the earliest signs of Arabic poetry’s influence on Hebrew poets. By surveying Arabic didactic verse and two Hebrew poems ostensibly composed following it (the first is commonly attributed to Nissi al-Nahrawānī and the other is by Saadiah Gaon), this article argues that there is no indication of a connection between the Arabic model and Hebrew poetry from this early period.
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Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. The Zutot covers Jewish culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines—literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history—and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.