'Sefer Hasidim' and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.

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Ivan G. Marcus

Summary

In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.

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• Authors: Ivan G Marcus, Ivan G. Marcus
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780812250091
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5009-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts; Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism