The author provides the first comprehensive critical edition of a text which was a fundamental influence on Jewish thought in the medieval period and has contin
Written in southern Italy in the tenth century, Shabbatai Donnolo s "Sefer Hakhmoni" is one of the earliest commentaries on "Sefer Ye irah." The volume offers t
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