The People of the Song : Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah /

The People of the Song : Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah /

When, in 1783, Moses Mendelssohn's German Psalms translation was published in Berlin, forward-thinking ideologues of Jewish cultural revival rendered its translator a redeemer of the songs of King David from exilic desolation. The People of the Song is the first study to examine Mendelssohn...

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Main Author: Sela, Yael (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 80.

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Biblical Studies.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translation and Editorial Policy
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Found in Translation
  •  1 Joel Bril (Löwe): an Inadvertent Innovator of Hebrew Literary Theory
  •  2 Chapter Outline
  • 1 Moses Mendelssohn's Psalms Translation and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  •  1 Mendelssohn's Aesthetics of Translation
  •  2 From Moses to David
  •  3 Hearing Psalms in Jerusalem
  •  4 The Sacred and the Lyrical
  •  5 "A More Noble Excellence"
  •  6 Exilic Loss and the Emancipatory Power of Story
  • 2 Disseminating Redemption in Book Form: Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el
  •  1 Mendelssohn's Translation Elucidated
  •  2 Redemption in Book Form
  •  3 The Design of the Book
  •  4 The Songs of Israel among Other Nations
  •  5 From a Mythology of Exile to an Ethos of Redemption: the Hebrew Commentaries
  •  6 Hearing the Song of Zion in Jewish Imagination: the Title Page of Sefer Zemirot Yisra'el
  •  7 Redemption through Translation
  • 3 "For the Weal of Our Nation": the Aesthetic Revival of the Berlin Haskalah
  •  1 National Revival in Arts and Letters: the Society for the Promotion of the Good and the Beneficent
  •  2 Printed Books, Translations, and the Poetry of Hebrew Scripture
  •  3 Introductions to Maskilim's Bible Translations: Melitsah and the Aesthetics of Hebrew Scripture
  •  4 From Introduction to Book
  •  5 1791
  • 4 Toward a Mythology of the People of the Song
  •  1 Bril's Textual Models
  •  2 On Hebrew Melitsah and the Correct Translation
  •  3 The Poiesis of a Nation
  •  4 Re-sounding the Lost Art of Music
  •  5 The Aesthetic Mediation of Natural Knowledge: the Prophet and Prophecy
  •  6 King David and the Lyric Code of the Temple State
  •  7 From a Mythology of Exile to an Ethos of Revival: on the Practice of Singing Psalms
  • Epilogue: from David to Moses
  • Bibliography.