Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation
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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 VIIAcknowledgments IXTransliterations and Abbreviations XIPart 1Historical Introduction 3Apulian Jewry 3Shabbatai Donnolo: Biographical Details 12Shabbatai Donnolo's Works 22Donnolo's “Library” 35Shabbatai Donnolo and Sefer Yeîirah 41The Earliest Commentaries on Sefer Yeîirah 47Sa'adiah Gaon 47Dunash ibn Tamim 50Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Sefer Yeîirah 57The Commentary on Genesis 1:26 58The Introduction to the Commentary on Sefer Yeîirah 64The Commentary on Sefer Yeîirah 66Part 2The Manuscripts 79Conjectural Reconstruction of the Original Codex 84The Attestation of the Text in the Manuscripts 102The Manuscript Tradition 105Stemma Codicum 123Part 3Principles of Edition: Organisation of the Text and the Apparatus Criticus 127Abbreviations and Preliminary Notes 127Normalisation of Orthography 128The Title 130Hebrew text<$$$> 137<$$$> 145<$$$> 163<$$$> 167<$$$> 180<$$$> 196Notes to the Critical Text 209English TranslationCommentary on the Book of Formation called Sefer Hakhmoni 221Commentary on Let Us Make Man in Our Image after Our Likeness (Genesis 1:26) 249Introduction to the Commentary on the Book of Formation 279Book 1 285Book 2 306Book 3 334Part 4Bibliography 361Manuscripts 361Primary Sources 363Studies and Reference Works 370Index of Names 399Index of Names of Places 409Index of Books and Works Titles 411
