Janus Parallelism in Unetaneh Tokef
Professor Herbert Basser drew attention to an instance of Janus parallelism in rabbinic liturgical poetry.1 Janus parallelism occurs, it will be recalled, when a word that carries two senses corresponds in one sense to the words preceding it and in the other sense to those following it.The phenomenon occurs not infrequently in the Hebrew Bible.2The familiar example is in Song of Songs 2:12 .
Authors
- Ranon Katzoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9009-0710)
Institutions
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Review of Rabbinic Judaism
- Published
- 2025-04-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15700704-20250019
- Primary Topic
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00