Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975-

Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni : introduction, critical text, and annotated English translation / by Piergabriele Mancuso. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrations - Studies in Jewish history and culture, v. 27 1568-5004 ; . - Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 27. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

"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.


Includes Hebrew text and English translation.

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Donnolo, Shabbetai, 913-approximately 982. Sefer ḥakhmoni


Sefer Yeẓirah
Sefer ḥakhmoni (Donnolo, Shabbetai)
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Jewish astrology
Jewish cosmology
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Jewish cosmology.


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