Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini : A Critical Edition with English Translation / / David Torollo

• Autore: Torollo David <1984->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 184 pages)
• Disciplina: 225.95
• Soggetto topico: Hebrew literature; Hebrew literature, Medieval - History and criticism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini
• Titolo autorizzato: Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910774778703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures ; ; 13.