Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer Ḥakhmoni

Biographical note Readership

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 415pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

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.

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All those interested in early medieval Hebrew literature, Jewish history, Biblical exegesis, Hebrew sciences (astrology- astronomy, medicine) and mysticism, as well as Byzantine scholars and philologers and philosophers.

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9789004255913

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