Abstract
Yannai, one of the most influential and prolific liturgical poets in Jewish Palestine in the Byzantine period, frequently introduces negative terms to express God’s transcendence, especially in his silluq poems. The current article collects and analyses cases in which such celebrations of God’s transcendence are checked or qualified by reference to the people of Israel, whom Yannai describes in similarly apophatic terms. I contextualize this theologically charged rhetorical reflex through comparison with contemporary Christian apophatic theology and the exaltation of God in the hekhalot literature.
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