Sefer Ha-Pardes By Jedaiah Ha-Penini
Open Book Publishers
ISBN13:
9781800647251
$28.55
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.
- | Author: David Torollo
- | Publisher: Open Book Publishers
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 184 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
- | ISBN-10: 1800647255
- | ISBN-13: 9781800647251
- Author:
- David Torollo
- Publisher:
- Open Book Publishers
- Publication Date:
- Jul 15, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 184 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Poetry
- ISBN-10:
- 1800647255
- ISBN-13:
- 9781800647251