Statement

Menahem and Dunash disagreed about adapting Arabic rules to Hebrew poetry. Menahem held that Arabic standards could not be laid over Hebrew, since biblical poetry shows no discernible meter and should be the model; Dunash concluded, from the close linguistic kinship of the two languages, that Arabic poetry could and should serve as the model, and devised a technique for imitating Arabic quantitative meter in Hebrew. In the end Dunash's approach came to dominate secular (and some liturgical) poetry in medieval Spain.

References

1. p. 167

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 167

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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