RT Book, Whole
T1 «Sefer ha-Pardes» by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation
A1 ben Abraham Bedersi, Jedaiah
A1 Torollo Sánchez, David
A2 Torollo Sánchez, David
AB 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.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.
PB Open Book Publishers
SN 978-1-80064-725-1 (Paperback)
SN 978-1-80064-726-8 (Hardback)
SN 978-1-80064-727-5 (PDF)
SN 2632-6906
SN 2932-6906
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95684
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95684
LA eng
NO Torollo, David. Sefer Ha-Pardes by Jedaiah Ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation. 1.a ed. Vol. 13. Semitic Languages and Cultures. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0299.
NO This project would not have been possible without the Early Career Development funds granted by the Small Project Scheme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London, and the support of the research project ‘Legado de Sefarad: La producción material e intelectual del judaísmo sefardí bajomedieval, 3a parte’, based at the Complutense University of Madrid and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-104219GB-I00). In addition, this research was made possible by the support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 2 may 2025