Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni

Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation

AvPiergabriele Mancuso

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del 27 i serien Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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Sefer Hakhmoni by the 10th-century Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most important documents of the “Hebrew Renaissance” of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the 9th and the 11th centuries. Written as a commentary on Sefer Yeîirah (Book of Formation, an anonymous text probably written in Palestine between the 3rd and the 6th centuries), Sefer Hakhmoni is in fact a much more complex work, consisting of biblical exegesis, astrology, medicine, a detailed analysis of the neo-Platonic idea of melothesia, and the correspondence between the elements of the microcosm and macrocosm. This volume offers the critical text, an annotated English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Donnolo and his works.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-06
Mått:160 x 240 x 29 mm
Vikt:883 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004167629

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Piergabriele Mancuso, Phd (2009) in Jewish Studies, University College London, taught at Boston University – Center for Italian and European Studies, and he is now a post-doctoral research fellow at Insubria University, Como. He has published several articles on early medieval Italian Jewry and on Shabbatai Donnolo’s writings.

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CONTENTS PART ONE Historical Introduction Donnolo's "Library" Shabbatai Donnolo and Sefer Yesirah The Earliest Commentaries on Sefer Yesirah Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Sefer Yesirah PART TWO The Manuscripts The Manuscript Tradition Stemma Codicum PART THREE Principles of Edition: Organisation of the Text and the Apparatus Criticus Hebrew Text Notes to the Critical Text English Translation Commentary on the Book of Formation called Sefer Hakhmoni Commentary on Let Us Make Man in Our Image after Our Likeness (Genesis 1:26) Introduction to the Commentary on the Book of Formation PART FOUR Bibliography Index of Names Index of Names of Places Index of Books and Works Titles