Book of the Songs of Israel

Yael Sela (D.Phil. Oxford 2010), Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, has authored studies in modern German Jewish history, including The People of the Song: Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah (Brill, forthcoming).

• b>AcknowledgementsList of Figures and MapsAbbreviationsNote on the Translation and Editorial PolicyIntroduction1 Sefer Zemirot Yisra’el: An Overview2 Joel Bril (Löwe): An Inadvertent Innovator3 Redemption through Translation4 Translating Translation: The Making of the Book5 Sefer Zemirot Yisra’el and the Emergence of the Haskalah Movement in Prussia6 The Genre of Introduction in Maskilic Bible Translation7 Bibliographic Sources, Textual Models, and Bril’s Critique8 Against Idolatry: The Poiesis of Judaism in the Lyrical9 Joel Bril as Scholar, Writer, Translator10 The Dissemination and Subsequent Editions of Sefer Zemirot Yisra’el11 Psalms and German Jewish Modernity: From the Songs of Israel to the National Poetry of the JewsJoel Bril, Three Introductions to Psalms: Text, Translation, CommentaryTitle PagesTable of ContentsIndex of the Picture ChartsFirst Introduction: On the Subject of Poetry in General and the Melitsah of Holy Scriptures in ParticularSecond Introduction: The History of Song and Music in the Lands of the Hebrews, Their Uses and Their Accompanying InstrumentsThird Introduction: [On the Songs Included in the Book of Psalms and the Order of Their Compilation]Appendix 1: A Maskil’s Library: Joel Bril’s BibliographyAppendix 2: Joel Bril as Translator: Glossary of Key Hebrew TermsAppendix 3: The Dissemination of Sefer Zemirot Yisra’el (1785–1791)Appendix 4: An Annotated List of Sefer Zemirot Yisra’el in Subsequent Editions and ManuscriptsBibliographyIndex