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Author Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975-

Title Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni : introduction, critical text, and annotated English translation / by Piergabriele Mancuso.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; v. 27
Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 27. 1568-5004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Transliterations and Abbreviations; PART ONE; Historical Introduction; Donnolo's "Library"; Shabbatai Donnolo and Sefer Yes?irah; The Earliest Commentaries on Sefer Yes?irah; Donnolo's Sefer H?akhmoni: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Sefer Yes?irah; 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; PART FOUR; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Names of Places; Index of Books and Works Titles.
Summary "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 Renaissancea of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the 9th and the 11th centuries. Written as a commentary on "Sefer YeA(R)irah" (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.
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Language Includes Hebrew text and English translation.
Subject Donnolo, Shabbetai, 913-approximately 982. Sefer ḥakhmoni.
Sefer Yeẓirah.
Sefer Yeẓirah.
Cabala.
Cabala.
Jewish astrology.
Jewish astrology.
Jewish cosmology.
Jewish cosmology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975- Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004167629 (DLC) 2009033104 (OCoLC)430736587
ISBN 9789004181106 (electronic book)
9004181105 (electronic book)
9789004167629
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