Poem, Prayer, Supplement: The Destabilizing Logic of Piyyut.
This article argues that piyyut (Hebrew liturgical poetry) bears the structural form of a destabilizing supplement to prayer, not only in its earliest stages but also in later eras of worship and culture, and that reading both prayer and poem through the notion of supplementarity reveals their gener...
| Publicado en: | Prooftexts Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 29 - 58 |
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Indiana University Press
2021
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