Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni

Piergabriele Mancuso, Phd (2009) in Jewish Studies, University College London, taught at Boston University – Center for Italian and European Studies, and he is now a post-doctoral research fellow at Insubria University, Como. He has published several articles on early medieval Italian Jewry and on Shabbatai Donnolo’s writings.

• CONTENTS PART ONE Historical Introduction Donnolo's "Library" Shabbatai Donnolo and Sefer Yesirah The Earliest Commentaries on Sefer Yesirah Donnolo's Sefer Hakhmoni: A Neoplatonic Interpretation of Sefer Yesirah PART TWO The Manuscripts The Manuscript Tradition Stemma Codicum PART THREE Principles of Edition: Organisation of the Text and the Apparatus Criticus Hebrew Text Notes to the Critical Text English Translation Commentary on the Book of Formation called Sefer Hakhmoni Commentary on Let Us Make Man in Our Image after Our Likeness (Genesis 1:26) Introduction to the Commentary on the Book of Formation PART FOUR Bibliography Index of Names Index of Names of Places Index of Books and Works Titles