"Sefer Yeṣirah" and Its Contexts : : Other Jewish Voices / / Tzahi Weiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Weiss, Tzahi,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Sefer Yeṣirah, or "Book of Formation," is one of the most influential Jewish compositions of late antiquity. First attested to in the tenth century C.E. and attributed by some to the patriarch Abraham himself, Sefer Yeṣirah claims that the world was created by the powers of the decimal num...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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 Yeṣirah
• Chapter 4. Sounds of Silence: Sefer Yeṣirah Before the Tenth Century
• Chapter 5. Reevaluating the Scientific Phase of Sefer Yeṣirah
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Sefer Yeṣirah and the Early Islamic Science of Letters
• Appendix 2. Sefer Yeṣirah’s Long Version, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 66a–71b, with the English Translations of Peter A. Hayman
• Appendix 3. The Midrash About Sefer Yeṣirah and Ben Sira, According to Ms. Vatican 299/4, 65a–66a
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments