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’s concep...

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Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah
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.
1. Verfasser:
Sela, Yael
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
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’s conception of biblical Hebrew poetry as a particular manifestation of Judaism’s universalism. The author traces how it helped forge a new foundational narrative that imagined Israel’s covenant with God in sacred song, not in revealed law, portrayed King David as a bard, not a military leader, and envisioned national redemption of modern Jews as an aesthetic, not a political, revival.
Umfang:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9789004536500
9004536507
Schlagworte:
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786.
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