Thoth distribution@thoth.pub Google 20260521T102554

urn:uuid:de4d3343-5304-4a6f-8edb-a8eff851a4b3 03 15 9781800647275 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini A Critical Edition with English Translation 1 A01 David Torollo 01 eng 02 heb 00 184 03 12 2CSJ 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 10 POE000000 23 Sefer ha-Pardes 12 DC 10 FOR011000 23 Literature 23 Provençal Jewish author 12 DSC 23 Jedaiah ha-Penini 10 LAN009010 12 CFF 23 musar 12 CFP 23 wise epigrams 23 meshalim 23 English-Hebrew parallel text 01 06 03 00 <p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This essential new work offers a significant contribution to scholarship in the field of Medieval Hebrew Hispano-Provencal literature.</p> 04 00 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................... vii A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION ........... ix INTRODUCTION....................................................................... 1 1.0. Transmission and Reception of Sefer ha-Pardes......... 2 2.0. Didacticism: What to Know and How to Feel about It..................................................................... 8 3.0. Wisdom Epigrams in Provence ............................... 11 4.0. Conclusion.............................................................. 17 PARALLEL TEXT .................................................................... 19 REFERENCES ....................................................................... 161 INDEX .................................................................................. 167 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20220803 02 WORLD 06 15 9781800647251 06 15 9781800647268 06 15 9781800647275 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01