Shabbatai Donnolo's Sefer ?akhmoni: Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation

Sefer &Hbdot;akhmoni by the tenth-century, Jewish polymath Shabbatai Donnolo is one of the first texts written in Hebrew in medieval Europe and one of the most important documents of the “Hebrew Renaissance” of Byzantine Jewry in southern Italy between the ninth and the eleventh centuries. Written as a commentary on Sefer Yeîirah (Book of Formation, an anonymous text probably written in Palestine between the third and the sixth centuries), Sefer &Hbdot;akhmoni is in fact a much more complex...