Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni: Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Piergabriele Mancuso
From the rear cover
"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 ninth and the eleventh centuries. Written as a commentary on "Sefer Ye 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 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.
Details
- Title Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni: Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation
- Author Piergabriele Mancuso
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 428
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2010-04
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9789004167629 / 9004167625
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 10.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 in (25.65 x 16.76 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Cabala, Jewish cosmology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009033104
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.16
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 15