Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni

Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-16762-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mancuso, Piergabriele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.