The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, and the Soul

From the tenth century to the thirteenth, the Jews of Spain belonged to a vibrant and relatively tolerant Arabic-speaking society, a sophisticated culture that had a marked effect on Jewish life, thought, artistic tastes, and literary expression. In this companion volume to Wine, Women, andDeath, we see how the surrounding Arabic culture influenced the new poetry that was being written for the synagogue service. The Hebrew poems here, accompanied by elegant English translations and explanatory essays are short lyrics of the highest literary quality.

• The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)
• Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
• The Guide of the Perplexed (Hackett Classics)
• As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam
• The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)
• The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics)
• Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook)
• The Jewish Bible: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures -- The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text: Torah * Nevi'im * Kethuvim
• Mystical Languages of Unsaying
• The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Religion and Postmodernism)