JOHANAN BEN JOSHUA HA-KOHEN
- JOHANAN BEN JOSHUA HA-KOHEN
- JOHANAN BEN JOSHUA HA-KOHEN (c. ninth or tenth century),
liturgical poet. zunz assumed, with reservations, that Johanan,
one of the principal representatives of the older piyyut,
lived in the period after eleazar kallir , and was of Greek
extraction. The discovery of Johanan's poems among the
Genizah fragments in Cairo, and the new light on synagogal
poetry that has been acquired over the past century indicate that
Johanan lived in Palestine, and that although it is difficult to
determine his dates he may have lived before the Muslim conquest.
Johanan composed three lengthy piyyutim: (1) a
kerovah for Shavuot (found in a number of manuscripts of the
Greek ritual); (2) a kerovah for Musaf of the Day
of Atonement (printed in two different versions in the
Maḥzor
Romania (see romaniot and Roman rituals); (3) an
avodah for the day of Atonement (which figures in the Roman
ritual). Other piyyutim by Johanan are found in manuscript
form, notably in the Genizah texts.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Dukes, Poesie, 49, 143; Zunz, Poesie, 81, 108; Zunz, Ritus, 81f.; Zunz,
Lit Poesie, 98–100; Landshuth, Ammudei, 82f.; I. Elbogen, Studien
zur Geschichte des Juedischen Gottesdienstes (1907), 84f.;
Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1933), 398; M. Zulay, in: YMḤSI, 2 (1936), 324–5,
347, 358; 5 (1939), 155–7. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
E. Fleischer, Hebrew Liturgcal Poetry in the Middle Ages
(1975), 118 (Heb.).
(Jefim (Hayyim) Schirmann)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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