Studies in Jewish Manuscripts

edited by Joseph Dan, Klaus Herrmann, M Petzoldt and J Hoornweg

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Extent: 269 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism

Series volume number: 14

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1999)

ISBN: 9783161470448

Price: $174.00

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Undoubtedly one of the most fascinating areas of Judaic research, Jewish manuscripts, has experienced a remarkable renaissance. What the field has largely lacked, however, is professional publications to bring together researchers who, albeit in different specialist areas (history, philosophy, Kabbalah, bibliography, art history, comparative manuscript studies, paleography and codicology), all deal variously with Hebrew manuscripts. This desideratum of Judaic scholarship appears all the more reasonable when we look at the situation of the classical philologies which have a long tradition of specialist publications devoted exclusively to the study of Latin and Greek manuscripts. The authors of the collected eight articles show the perspectives and the possibilities of such a discourse based on Jewish manuscripts within Judaic Studies; moreover numerous tie-ins with disciplines relating to general Medieval and early modern history and culture can be developed.

Joseph Dan : The Book of Divine Glory by Rabbi Judah the Pious of Regensburg - Klaus Herrmann : The Reception of Hekhalot-Literature in Yohanan Alemanno's Autograph MS Paris 849 - Naftali Loewenthal : Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi's Kitzur Likkutei Amarim British Library Or. 10456 - Aviezer Ravitzky : The God of the Philosophers versus the God of the Kabbalists. A Controversy in 15th Century Crete (MSS Vatican Heb. 105 and 254) - Marc Saperstein : The Manuscript/s of Morteira's Sermons - Gabrielle Sed-Rajna : The History of a Hebrew Codex. A Hebrew Codex as History. Maimonides' Mishnah Torah at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Joseph Shatzmiller and Anne-Marie Weil : Un autographe de Gersonide. Examen graphologique - Marc Verman : Signor Tranquillo's Magic Notebook

  • Edited by Joseph Dan
  • Edited by Klaus Herrmann
  • Edited by J Hoornweg
  • Edited by M Petzoldt