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

By: Language: English, Hebrew Original language: Hebrew Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 27.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004181106
  • 9004181105
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/6 22
LOC classification:
  • BM525.A419 D6636 2010eb
Online resources:
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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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.

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