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

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Author / Creator:Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975-
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Hebrew
Series:Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; v. 27
Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 27.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234781
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ISBN:9789004181106
9004181105
9789004167629
9004167625
1282949241
9781282949249
9786612949241
6612949244
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Includes Hebrew text and English translation.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975- Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004167629
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004167629.i-416