Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini
In: Semitic Languages and Cultures; (2022)
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This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini. It is purportedly an example of musar: a compilation of wise epigrams and meshalim [parables] that teach moral lessons on different topics, such as the service of God, friendship, the deceitfulness of the world, medicine, logic, music, magic, and poetry. However, it is in reality a compendium of sayings that reveal the author’s personal views and feelings on a variety of religious topics, secular sciences, and their practitioners. David Torollo presents a fluent and illuminating English-Hebrew parallel text based on four sixteenth-century witnesses: three manuscripts and a printed edition. A rigorous study accompanies and contextualises the Hebrew work, exploring Sefer ha-Pardes’s transmission and reception in different places over time; its structure and content; its place in the intellectual environment and literary tradition of Provence; and possible lines of enquiry for future research. This essential new work offers a significant contribution to scholarship in the field of Medieval Hebrew Hispano-Provencal literature.
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Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Torollo, David |
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Quelle: | Semitic Languages and Cultures; (2022) |
Veröffentlichung: | Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
Umfang: | 184 |
ISBN: | 978-1-80064-725-1 (print) ; 978-1-80064-726-8 (print) ; 978-1-80064-727-5 (print) |
DOI: | 10.11647/OBP.0299 |
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