TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. Raymond P. Scheindlin – A Sketch vii
4. Bibliography of the Writings of Raymond P. Scheindlin xiii
5. Notes on Two Passages in the Biblical Account of Prehistory 1
6. He Said, She Said: Reinscribing the Andalusi Arabic Love Lyric 7
7. On the Interplay of Arabic and Hebrew in the Cairo Geniza Letters 17
8. Yedaiah Bedersi’s Elef Alafin 37
9. The Still, Small Voice: 1 Kings 19 and the Roots of Intolerance in Biblical Religion 47
10. Ill-Starred Characters 61
11. Andalusian Responses to Ptolemy in Hebrew 69
12. The Human Dimension of Wissenschaft des Judentums: Letters from the Rawidowicz Archives 87
13. What Does a Father Want?: An Unpublished Poem and Its Intertexts 129
14. Some Minutiae of Raymond Scheindlin’s Job Translation in Light of Medieval Hebrew Exegesis, Philology, and Poetry 155
15. “You’d Have Seen What Melts the Mind” – Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Poem No. 20 from the Turjumān al-Ashwāq 175
16. The Urge to Be Immortalized: Zechariah Ald. āhirī’s Poetic Epitaphs for Himself 181
17. The Dirges of Don Benvenist and Doña Tolosana de la Cavalleria for the Death of Their Son Solomon 211
18. Major Themes in the Poetry of Rabbi Sālim al-Shabazī 225
19. The Drama of Joseph and His Brothers in Piyyut Literature 249
20. החשוקה כמשל לחכמה האלוהית בשירי אבן גבירול 283
21. הן עתה תהיה על בתי אבן: שירי מצבה של משה זכות 293
22. שיר פרישות פייטני לדויד הנשיא 305