Kanon jako pod-tekst: poetyka Šmuʾela ha-Nagida wobec tradycji literackich starożytnej Grecji
Canonical Text as Intertext: the Poetics of Šmuʾel ha-Nagid and the Literary Traditions of Ancient Greece

Summary/Abstract: The Hebrew poets of medieval Spain are known for their artful approach to biblical allusion. Two types of such allusion stand out in the poetry of the period: the shibbutz – the art of weaving fragments of Biblical verses into the poem, and the remez – the practice of mentioning Biblical characters, places and events in the poem. Both were excessively used by Šmuʾel ha-Nagid (993–1056) – one of the most influential Jewish dignitaries and intellectuals of the epoque. The present article provides an overview of the poets’ use of shibbutzim and remazim, as well as a comparison of these types of biblical allusion to an analogous phenomenon in the literary tradition of the Homeric allusion, especially present in Hellenistic Greek poetry. This comparison sheds an interesting light on the use of canonical texts as intertexts – a phenomenon that, despite occurring independently in those two literary cultures, had similar foundations and functionality in both of them.

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