Tzahi Weiss

Sefer Yeṣirah and Its Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

In "Sefer Yesirah" and Its Contexts, Tzahi Weiss explores anew the contested history of Sefer Yesirah, in the process extending our knowledge of Jewish intellectual traditions excluded from rabbinic canon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249903
• ISBN-10: 0812249909
• Artikelnr.: 48957212

Autorenporträt

Tzahi Weiss is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature at the Open University of Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Transliteration of the Hebrew Alphabet Introduction Chapter 1. Discussions About Alphabetical Letters in Non-Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity Chapter 2. The Creation of the World from the Letters of the Ineffable Name Chapter 3. The Creation of the World from Twenty-Two Letters and the Syriac Context of Sefer Ye
irah Chapter 4. Sounds of Silence: Sefer Ye
irah Before the Tenth Century Chapter 5. Reevaluating the Scientific Phase of Sefer Ye
irah Epilogue Appendices 1. Sefer Ye
irah and the Early Islamic Science of Letters 2. Sefer Ye
irah's Long Version, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 66a-71b, with the English Translations of Peter A. Hayman 3. The Midrash About Sefer Ye
irah and Ben Sira, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 65a-66a Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments