Book of the Songs of Israel : Three Introductions to Psalms on Poetry, Translation, and Music by Joel Bril (Berlin 1791). A Bilingual Edition, translated with Commentary and an Introduction /

Book of the Songs of Israel : Three Introductions to Psalms on Poetry, Translation, and Music by Joel Bril (Berlin 1791). A Bilingual Edition, translated with Commentary and an Introduction /

This annotated bilingual edition presents to readers for the first time a key Hebrew book of Jewish Enlightenment. Printed in Berlin in 1791, Joel Bril's Hebrew introductions to Psalms constitute the earliest interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn's language philosophy, translation theory, an...

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Main Author: Sela Teichler, Yael (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 77.

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Biblical Studies.
Hebrew Bible.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • b>Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on the Translation and Editorial Policy
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el : An Overview
  • 2 Joel Bril (Löwe): An Inadvertent Innovator
  • 3 Redemption through Translation
  • 4 Translating Translation: The Making of the Book
  • 5 Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el and the Emergence of the Haskalah Movement in Prussia
  • 6 The Genre of Introduction in Maskilic Bible Translation
  • 7 Bibliographic Sources, Textual Models, and Bril's Critique
  • 8 Against Idolatry: The Poiesis of Judaism in the Lyrical
  • 9 Joel Bril as Scholar, Writer, Translator
  • 10 The Dissemination and Subsequent Editions of Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el
  • 11 Psalms and German Jewish Modernity: From the Songs of Israel to the National Poetry of the Jews
  • Joel Bril, Three Introductions to Psalms: Text, Translation, Commentary
  • Title Pages
  • Table of Contents
  • Index of the Picture Charts
  • First Introduction: On the Subject of Poetry in General and the Melitsah of Holy Scriptures in Particular
  • Second Introduction: The History of Song and Music in the Lands of the Hebrews, Their Uses and Their Accompanying Instruments
  • Third Introduction: [On the Songs Included in the Book of Psalms and the Order of Their Compilation]
  • Appendix 1: A Maskil's Library: Joel Bril's Bibliography
  • Appendix 2: Joel Bril as Translator: Glossary of Key Hebrew Terms
  • Appendix 3: The Dissemination of Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el (1785-1791)
  • Appendix 4: An Annotated List of Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el in Subsequent Editions and Manuscripts
  • Bibliography
  • Index.