List Books » Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation
Authors: Piergabriele Mancuso
ISBN-13: 9789004167629, ISBN-10: 9004167625
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Piergabriele Mancuso, Phd (2009) in Jewish Studies, University College London, taught at Boston University – Center for Italian and European Studies, and he is now a post-doctoral research fellow at Insubria University, Como. He has published several articles on early medieval Italian Jewry and on Shabbatai Donnolo’s writings.
Written in southern Italy in the tenth century, Shabbatai Donnolo’s Sefer Hakhmoni is one of the earliest commentaries on Sefer Yeîirah. The volume offers the critical text, an annotated English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Donnolo and his works.
Preface VII
Acknowledgments IX
Transliterations and Abbreviations XI
Part 1
Historical Introduction 3
Apulian Jewry 3
Shabbatai Donnolo: Biographical Details 12
Shabbatai Donnolo's Works 22
Donnolo's “Library” 35
Shabbatai Donnolo and Sefer Yeîirah 41
The Earliest Commentaries on Sefer Yeîirah 47
Sa'adiah Gaon 47
Dunash ibn Tamim 50
Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Sefer Yeîirah 57
The Commentary on Genesis 1:26 58
The Introduction to the Commentary on Sefer Yeîirah 64
The Commentary on Sefer Yeîirah 66
Part 2
The Manuscripts 79
Conjectural Reconstruction of the Original Codex 84
The Attestation of the Text in the Manuscripts 102
The Manuscript Tradition 105
Stemma Codicum 123
Part 3
Principles of Edition: Organisation of the Text and the Apparatus Criticus 127
Abbreviations and Preliminary Notes 127
Normalisation of Orthography 128
The Title 130
Hebrew text
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Notes to the Critical Text 209
English Translation
Commentary on the Book of Formation called Sefer Hakhmoni 221
Commentary on Let Us Make Man in Our Image after Our Likeness (Genesis 1:26) 249
Introduction to the Commentary on the Book of Formation 279
Book 1 285
Book 2 306
Book 3 334
Part 4
Bibliography 361
Manuscripts 361
Primary Sources 363
Studies and Reference Works 370
Index of Names 399
Index of Names of Places 409
Index of Books and Works Titles 411