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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1. Performance Matters: Between Public Acclamation and Epistolary Exchange

Chapter 2. Poetic Gifts: Maussian Exchange and the Working of Medieval Jewish Culture

Chapter 3. “Humble Like the Humble One”: The Language of Jewish Political Legitimacy

Chapter 4. “Sefarad Boasts over Shinar”: Mediterranean Regionalism in Jewish Panegyric

Chapter 5. “A Word Aptly Spoken”: The Ethics of Praise

Chapter 6. “A Cedar Whose Stature in the Garden of Wisdom …”: Hyperbole, the Imaginary, and the Art of Magnification

Chapter 7. In Praise of God, in Praise of Man: Issues in Political Theology

Chapter 8. “May His Book Be Burnt Even Though It Contains Your Praise!”: Jewish Panegyric in the Christian Mediterranean

Chapter 9. The Other “Great Eagle”: Interreligious Panegyrics and the Limits of Interpretation

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Geniza Manuscripts

Acknowledgments