Chapter 6. “A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .”: Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange 30
5. Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture 67
6. Chapter 3. “Humble Like the Humble One”: The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy 90
7. Chapter 4. “Sefarad Boasts over Shinar”: Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric 128
8. Chapter 5. “A Word Aptly Spoken”: The Ethics of Praise 145
9. Chapter 6. “A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom . . .”: Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification 160
10. Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology 176
11. Chapter 8. “May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!”: Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean 206
12. Chapter 9. The Other “Great Eagle”: Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation 243
13. Afterword 277
14. Notes 279
15. Bibliography 345
16. General Index 371
17. Index of Geniza Manuscripts 383
18. Acknowledgments 385