Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ḥakhmoni : introduction, critical text, and annotated English translation /
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Author / Creator: | Mancuso, Piergabriele, 1975- |
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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 |
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 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 413 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789004181106 9004181105 9789004167629 9004167625 1282949241 9781282949249 9786612949241 6612949244 |
ISSN: | 1568-5004 ; |