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dc.contributor.authorTorollo, David
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-06T07:58:45Z
dc.date.available2022-09-06T07:58:45Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58147
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.languageHebrewen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSemitic Languages and Culturesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2C Afro-Asiatic languages::2CS Semitic languages::2CSJ Hebrewen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poetsen_US
dc.subject.otherEnglish-Hebrew parallel text;Jedaiah ha-Penini;meshalim;musar;Provençal Jewish author;Sefer ha-Pardes;wise epigramsen_US
dc.titleSefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Peninien_US
dc.title.alternativeA Critical Edition with English Translationen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0299en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800647251en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800647268en_US
oapen.collectionScholarLeden_US
oapen.series.number13en_US
oapen.pages184en_US
oapen.place.publicationCambridgeen_US


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