Editing Kabbalistic texts / edited by Bill Rebiger and Gerold Necker ; in collaboration with the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebiger, Bill

Necker, Gerold

Series:

Studies in magic and Kabbalah ; v. 2.

Studies in magic and Kabbalah, 2943-8780 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala--Editing--Congresses.

Cabala.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.

Summary:

These conference proceedings present the current state of the art in the field of editing kabbalistic texts and features the lectures given at the online conference on this topic on February 2022 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The contributions cover fundamental editorial questions that result from recent research, such as the re-evaluation of individual manuscript transmission by copyists who were also kabbalists, or case studies that range from the early to the Lurianic Kabbalah and serve different genres. An initial editorial concept is presented for the main work of medieval Kabbalah, Sefer ha-Zohar (Book of Splendor). The editorial challenges of the treatises and commentaries of Christian kabbalists are also discussed. Textual theories, hermeneutics and the problem of translating kabbalistic texts, which often have multiple versions in the context of their historical reception, are linked to two key elements: first, philological approaches that broaden the way we read and interact with kabbalistic texts, and second, digital solutions that meet the multiple demands of studying and presenting texts.

Contents:

Introduction / Gerold Necker and Bill Rebiger

Why editions? And other uncomfortable questions for Kabbalah scholarship / Daniel Abrams

The one and the many : the structure and versions of Keter Shem Tov according to the New Synoptic Edition with a special focus on MS Jerusalem NLI, 8̊ 541 / Gerold Necker and Bill Rebiger

Extensions of the digital collation tool LERA for the Scholarly Edition of Keter Shem Tov / Marcus Pöckelmann

The reception of early Kabbalistic sources in Ashkenaz : Rabbi Menaḥem, the student of Rabbi Eleazar of worms / Na'ama Ben-Shachar

Appendix : Editon of Divrei Menaḥem

Editing commentaries on the ten Sefirot : an example of a commentary on the left emanation / Tzahi Weiss and Na'ama Ben-Shachar

Emendation, editing, elucidation : preliminary remarks on the historical editing of Zoharic texts / Avishai Bar-Asher

The Christian reception of Keter Shem Tov : Egidio da Viterbo's annotations in MS London, British Library, Harley 5510 / Emma Abate and Bill Rebiger

Possible advantages of New Digital Editions in Christian Kabbalah Research : preliminary considerations / Elke Morlok

On loss and recovery : manuscript remediations, digital simulacra, and the conditions of Kabbalistic material text / Agata Paluch

The author, the reader, their text, and its editor : the case of R. Moses Zacuto's Kabbalistic correspondence / Gerold Necker.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783447122412

3447122412

OCLC:

1460658018

Publisher Number:

9783447122412