Sefer Yeṣirah and its contexts : other Jewish voices / Tzahi Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Tzahi, author.

Series:

Divinations

Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sefer Yeẓirah.

Cabala--Early works to 1800.

Cabala.

Jewish cosmology.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Summary:

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

Contents:

A Note on Transliteration of the Hebrew Alphabet

Introduction

Discussions About Alphabetical Letters in Non-Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity

The Creation of the World from the Letters of the Ineffable Name

The Creation of the World from Twenty-Two Letters and the Syriac Context of Sefer Yeṣirah

Sounds of Silence : Sefer Yeṣirah Before the Tenth Century

Reevaluating the Scientific Phase of Sefer Yeṣirah

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Sefer Yeṣirah and the Early Islamic Science of Letters

Appendix 2. Sefer Yeṣirah's Long Version, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 66a-71b, with the English Translations of Peter A. Hayman

Appendix 3. The Midrash About Sefer Yeṣirah and Ben Sira, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 65a-66a.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780812249903

0812249909

OCLC:

999673619