'Sefer Yesirah' and Its Contexts - Other Jewish Voices

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

List of contents

A Note on Transliteration of the Hebrew Alphabet

Introduction

Chapter 1. Discussions About Alphabetical Letters in Non-Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity

Chapter 2. The Creation of the World from the Letters of the Ineffable Name

Chapter 3. The Creation of the World from Twenty-Two Letters and the Syriac Context of Sefer Ye¿irah

Chapter 4. Sounds of Silence: Sefer Ye¿irah Before the Tenth Century

Chapter 5. Reevaluating the Scientific Phase of Sefer Ye¿irah

Epilogue

Appendices

1. Sefer Ye¿irah and the Early Islamic Science of Letters

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

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Tzahi Weiss is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature at the Open University of Israel.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Tzahi Weiss
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780812249903
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4990-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An; Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Divinations: Rereading Late An
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works