Lemaire, Sarah – Munich Research Centre

Yose ben Yose was the first poet to write in Hebrew whose name has come down to us since Ben Sirah. He began his piyyut “Atah konanta ᶜolam be-rov ḥesed” (‘You created the world with great love’) with a creation hymn. In clear, sublime language, the poet created a mosaic of creation legends. This double fascination of the beginning – the world creation hymn of an avant-gardist of synagogue poetry – is what I am trying to capture in my dissertation. I also examine the piyyut-genre of avodah as verbal sacrifice, how the Day of Atonement is reflected in Jose ben Jose’ poetic representation of creation, and what similarities and differences “Atah konanta ᶜolam be-rov ḥesed” has to other early avodah poems. Another focus is the particularly close connection between piyyut and targum in dealing with the biblical creation accounts and their function as a bridge between the house of study and the synagogue.

Sarah.Lemaire@lmu.de

Areas of Interest

early poetry of the synagogue (pre-classical piyyutim), Aramaic Bible translation (targumim), Aramaic poetry in Late Antiquity

Historical Periods of Interest

2nd through 8th centuries CE

Positions

2018

Research Assistant (Library), Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

2017

Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

2010 – 2012

Assistant in a DFG-funded project for the cataloguing and digitisation of historical Hebraica at the Bavarian State Library, Munich

2009 – 2010

Research Assistant (Library), Institute for Semitic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

2008 – 2009

Student Assistant (Library), Institute for Semitic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

2006 – 2007

Student Assistant (Library), Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

Education

2011

PhD Candidate in Judaic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich (working thesis title: “The Creation of the World in the Avodah Atah konanta Ꜥolam by Yose ben Yose”; supervisor: Ronny Vollandt)

2007

MA in Judaic Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich (thesis title: “Genesis 1 in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan”)

Publications

Books

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Articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings

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Entries in encyclopaedias and handbooks

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Book reviews

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Other publications

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