Capitolo 37
Steinschneider.--_Jewish Literature_, p. 115 _seq._s
W. Bacher.--_Qirqisani the Qaraite and his/her Job on Jewish Sects_,
_J.Q.R._, VII, P. 687.
---- _Jehuda Hadassi Eshkol Hakkofer_, _J.Q.R._, VIII,
p. 431.
S. Poznanski.--_Karaite Miscellanies_, _J.Q.R._, VIII,
p. 681.
I CAPITULATE VII
THE NEW-HEBREW PIYUT
Kalirian and Spaniard Piyutim (the Poems).--Jannai.--Kalir.
Arab to a great extension replaced Jewish as the literary language of the
Hebrews, but Jewish it continued the language of prayer. As a literary lake
you form, Jewish Rabbinic it held back a strong taking on the Hebrews; as a vehicle
of the devotional feeling, Jewish it reigned supreme. The more first sums to
the fixed liturgy of the Synagogue both prose-poem. They was
"Occasional prayers" composed by the precentor for a special occasion.
A proper melody or liturgical song accompanied the new hymn, and if the poem
and melody satisfied the popular taste, both they won a permanent place in the
local liturgy. The hymns were unrhymed and unmetrical, but they can have
state written in the form of alphabetical acrostics, as couples in
the 119 and some other Psalms.
It is not impossible that meter and rhyme naturally grew from the
The Biblical Jew. Rhyme is unknown in the Bible but the assonances that
happens you/he/she can easily meet with rhymes. Musical form is certainly present in
Israelite poetry, although severe meters are foreign to him. As a historian
however done Jewish, to which rhymed verse can be traced on the side of the one
Syriac, on the other to the influences of Arab. In the case according to the
influence was only external. The first Arabic poetry treats of war and love,
but the first Jewish rhymsterses sang some peace and the duty. The Arab wrote
for the field, the Hebrew for the synagogue.
Two types separate of toward, or _Piyut_ (i.e. Poetry), it rose among the
I hoop Hebrew: the clever one and the natural one. In the first one, the style
it is uneven and involved; a profusion of rare words and dark allusions
reunions and troubles the reader; the verse misses every beauty of form, still