Who resembles you? But they resemble you
Israel and the apophatic in Yannai
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4006732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tzvi Novick (0000-0001-8813-1352, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-284 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2097 • E-ISSN: 2056-6689 |
| Publisher | Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.18647/3094/jjs-2012 |
| OpenAlex | W2332436914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Yannai, one of the most influential and prolific liturgical poets in Jewish Palestine in the Byzantine period, frequently introduces negative terms to express God's transcendence, especially in his silluq poems. The current article collects and analyses cases in which such celebrations of God's transcendence are checked or qualified by reference to the people of Israel, whom Yannai describes in similarly apophatic terms. I contextualize this theologically charged rhetorical reflex through comparison with contemporary Christian apophatic theology and the exaltation of God in the hekhalot literature
African history and culture analysis · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |