The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevis Pilgrimage

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Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage , by Raymond Scheindlin. Oxford University Press, Raymond Scheindlin's new book blends scholarship, poetry, and literary biography to trace the spiritual transformation that inspired Judah Halevi's pilgrimage to Palestine in Halevi's fabled decision to abandon the comforts of Andalusian Spain for the rigors of a trip to his beloved Zion concluded, much as the aging poet envisioned, in death.

As Scheindlin notes, the legend has no historical accuracy but retains, albeit in distorted form, the yearning for "spiritual martyrdom" articulated increasingly in the poet's writings. Marshalling historical and literary evidence, Scheindlin charts two parallel tales of pilgrimage. One follows Halevi's physical departure from home and his sojourn in Egypt en route to Palestine; the other, equally arduous, imagines his inner trek from conventional piety to a singular expression of faith.

As Scheindlin indicates in his introduction, there are three sorts of sources available to trace Halevi's pilgrimage: Scheindlin's decision to engage all of these sources is rare and a delight.

The book falls into three sections. Part I, "A Portrait of the Pilgrim," traces the poet's religious development and the emergence of the themes that signal his turning away from conventional religious piety toward a more personal, ascetic, and visionary mode of writing and belief.

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Song of the Distant Dove: Scheindlin Abstract Judah Halevi, the great medieval Hebrew poet, abandoned home and family in Spain al-Andalus at the end of his life and traveled east to die in the Holy Land. We learn that Halevi was partially motivated by a desire to repudiate his contemporaries hybrid Judeo-Arabic culture and return to a purely Jewish way of life; yet the echoes of the Islamic religious sensibility in his poetry show that he could not escape it completely.

And while the precarious situation of the Jews as a tolerated minority in the Islamic world weighed heavily on him, the poetry shows that he was motivated not so much by national sentiment as by his own distinctive inner life. Touching on literature, religion, and history, this book provides a thorough introduction to Judeo-Arabic culture as well as a close look at a commanding personality of the agea doctor, theologian, communal leader, and, above all, a poet and at one of the best-documented episodes in medieval Jewish religious history.

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Recensie s Scheindlin is a master at situating the poems within the context of both Jewish and Islamic sources Scheindlin's insights into the poetry as a vivid expression of the poet's life and thought make this study strikingly rich. It is at once a literary study, a work of religious though, and an important contribution to cultural and intellectual history.

The Song of the Distant Dove

This remarkable study will leave a deep imprint on both historical scholarship and religious imagination. Betrokkenen Auteur Raymond P.

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