Talmuda de-Eretz Israel by Fine Steven;Koller Aaron

Author:Fine, Steven;Koller, Aaron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

Regardless of its historical value, this passage reveals to us what the early rabbinic authorities understood to be “standard components” of a wedding: garlands, music, and procession in a litter.826 Later sources, including the gemarra and medieval illuminations, and responsa literature attest to the continuation of these same customs, and others.827

Piyyutim offer both explicit and oblique evidence about wedding practices in this otherwise poorly documented period - particularly about Jewish practice but, given the assumption that Jewish weddings reflect knowledge of marriage customs in general, they may offer oblique information about Byzantine wedding practices more generally. The earliest poet to make concrete references to wedding customs is Yannai (mid-sixth century CE). Yannai did not write epithalamia, but he commonly uses the language and imagery of marriage to describe the relationship between God and Israel. In his Qedushta for Passover based on the Song of Songs, which conceives of the Exodus as an elopement, Yannai references marriage customs that would have been familiar to his audience, when he writes:

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