RARE monograph on the poetry of an early Jewish liturgical poet (payyetan) Yehudah who composed a cycle of poems in accordance with the reading tradition of the Pentateuch and Prophets on the Sabbath. The author - Wout Jac. van Bekkum teaches Post-Biblical Hebrew in the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Groningen and is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Amsterdam. Contains three reproductions of manuscripts. 245x160mm. XXXIV+183 pages. Dark-blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Front cover upper corner and spine bottom edge slightly bumped. This extremely rare study on early liturgical Hebrew poetry is in very good condition.