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Subject(s)

• Sefer Yeẓirah—Commentaries [Browse]

Series

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 104 = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 104, 0721-8753

Notes

Critical edition.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index.

Contents

• The fluid state of the text of Sefer Yeṣira
• Why a new edition of Sefer Yeṣira?
• The "original text" of SY or "the earliest recoverable text"?
• Editing Jewish texts fro the first millennium C.E.
• The manuscripts
• The rules of the edition
• Abbreviations in the textual apparatus
• Notes o the manuscripts
• The Chapter and paragraph divisions (Appendix II)
• The four pre-kabbalistic commentaries
• The earliest recoverable text of Sefer Yeṣira and the three recensions
• The three recensions and the developments of the SY text tradition
• Appendix I: The attestation of the paragraphs in the manuscripts
• Appendix II: The order of the paragraph in the manuscripts
• Appendix III: The earliest recoverable text of Sefer Yeṣira
• Appendix IV: The long recension additions.

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Other title(s)

Sefer Yeẓirah.

ISBN

3161483812 (cl.)

OCLC

57170774

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