633 research outputs found
« Rembobiner l’histoire des rouleaux. À propos du volume From Cairo To Amsterdam : Hebrew Scrolls From The 11th To The 18th Centuries »
No full textPresentazione in francese del volume From Cairo to Amsterdam: Hebrew Scrolls from the 11th to the 18th Centuries, a cura di E. Abate e J. Isserle
BiNaH: Bibliothèque Nationale “Hebraica”: Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris».
No full textA comprehensive cataloguing and an historical recherche of the collection of Hebrew manuscripts held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) still remains a desideratum. The collaborative project Bibliothèque Nationale “Hebraica”: Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris (BiNaH), aims at filling this gap. The project's objective is on the one hand, to prepare the first complete and updated catalogue of the BNF Hebrew manuscripts, on the other to write the history of the collection, through an in-depth research of the different components, legacies and intellectual endeavours behind the acquisition and assembling of the BNF’s Hebrew collection. The BNF collection is one of the richest worldwide including almost 1500 Hebrew manuscripts. Assembled through the centuries from various important legacies, these manuscripts date from the middle ages to the modern era and originate from all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. This remarkable corpus includes manuscripts on different topics: Biblical codices and Torah scrolls, Biblical commentaries, Talmudic and rabbinic texts, theological treatises, prayer books, and historical works. It also includes documents from everyday life, philosophical, scientific, medical, lexicographical, magical and mystical treatises. Some manuscripts are splendidly illuminated, others are kabbalistic parchments that once belonged to humanists and Hebraists. The unique stories and intellectual endeavours behind the acquisition and assembling of the Hebrew collection of the BNF still remain to be explored. Its history is intimately linked not only to Jewish cultural history but to the inner development of French history and European civilization. The duty of preserving and enhancing these invaluable treasures is at the heart of BiNaH project. The project will be hosted at IRHT (IRHT, irht.cnrs.fr/, CNRS UPR 841, Paris) and coordinated by Dr. Emma ABATE (researcher at IRHT) in collaboration with the BNF, in the person of Dr. Laurent HÉRICHER (chief curator of the Department of Oriental manuscripts). The codicological, palaeographical and historical investigation of the manuscripts will be carried out by an international team of scholars in the field of Hebrew codicology and palaeography, iconography, Jewish Studies, and with the technical support of the IRHT Digital humanities pole. The principal aims of the project BiNaH are the following: (1) To publish a complete fully updated catalogue, in print and online, of the Hebrew manuscripts collection held at the BNF. (2) To create a database, serving the specific purpose of cataloguing Hebrew manuscripts and structuring catalogue records, and an open-access and collaborative web platform enabling users to access the in-depth descriptions in the database and all existing information about each manuscript. The database and the web platform will be completely interoperable with other existing systems, granting exchange with major digital images repositories and open-source projects, such as Gallica (gallica.bnf.fr/), and Ktiv (web.nli.org.il/). (3) To publish a collective volume highlighting the history and the treasures of the BNF Hebrew collection. This historical investigation will be conducted on the basis of in-depth research into the available archival and by following the intellectual paths of scribes, owners and collectors who moulded the private collections behind the BNF Hebrew collection. This project will considerably improve our knowledge in the domains of Hebrew manuscripts and of Hebrew book culture and literacy from the middle ages through the early modern period. Its final goal is to enhance the knowledge of an invaluable cultural heritage and to facilitate its preservation
All’ombra del ṭallit. Riflessi magici delle catene incantate
No full textIn questa postfazione vengono analizzati elementi di continuità tra le forme della tradizione magica ebraica sin e le tecniche e i rituali del misticismo e della Kabbalah trattate in "Catene Incantate"
Hebrew Fragments and Kabbalistic Diagrams in the Urbino State Archive
No full textIn this article, I analyse Hebrew manuscripts fragments discovered in the context of the research project Books within Books. Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries (BwB, http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com). After a general presentation of the typology and content of the findings, I focus on Hebrew fragments that once belonged to a unique kabbalistic miscellanea (summing up overall twenty fragments) and I try to virtually reconstruct the codicological and textual features of this anthology to be dated on palaeographical grounds to the fifteenth century. The diagrams extant in four fragments of this miscellanea turn out to be extremely precious for the virtual reconstruction of the original mise en page of the cop
«Hokhmat ha-Nefesh: Soul and Dream, from Eleazar of Worms to Renaissance Italy»
No full textThis article examines the traditions of copying and reading a medieval Ashkenazi treatise, Hokhmat ha-Nefesh (»Wisdom of the Soul«) by Eleazar of Worms (1176–1238) in Renaissance Rome. It delves into a manuscript copied in 1515 by Jewish scholar Elias Levita (1469–1549), commissioned by Levita’s patron, Neoplatonist and Hermetic scholar Egidio da Viterbo (1469–1532). In addition to copying the text, Egidio had Jewish interpreters translate Hokhmat ha-Nefesh into vernacular Italian. The treatise discusses the heavenly nature of the soul, its connections with the angelic world, its prophetic abilities, and its fate and retribution in the afterlife. What role did this Ashkenazi text play in the early modern tradition? How can this text be seen as a testament to kabbalistic perspectives in Renaissance Italy? How did Egidio’s collaborators handle their scribal and translation tasks, and the relationship between the Hebrew original and the vernacular translation of Hokhmat ha-Nefesh? This essay addresses these questions
Sigillare il mondo. Amuleti e ricette dalla Genizah: Manoscritti magici ebraici della biblioteca della Alliance Israelite Universelle di Parigi
No full textL’ouvrage présente la première édition de manuscrits magiques de la Genizah conservés à la bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle à Paris. Les documents, provenant des diverses traditions du judaïsme oriental et méditerranéen (nord-africain, séfarade, byzantin), sont constitués de textes d’amulettes, de prescriptions magiques et de kabbale pratique. Leurs contenus sont identifiés, déchiffrés, replacés dans leur milieu religieux et situés dans le contexte plus général de l’histoire de la magie juive et de son étude scientifique. L’examen, en comparaison avec d’autres sources (anciennes, médiévales et modernes), s’intéresse à des rituels à déployer afin d’obtenir protection, de soigner les maladies, d’exorciser les démons et les esprits malfaisants, de connaître le succès dans le travail ou dans la vie sentimentale, ou encore d’améliorer les capacités intellectuelles. L’analyse conjugue l’étude de documents avec une recherche sur la fonction de la magie dans la culture hébraïque
UNRAVELLING «GOLEM» AND «MALBUSH». Reflections on Jewish Rituals of Creation
No full textThis study explores Jewish medieval esoteric practices of initiation and empowerment of the «magician», which have so far been considered unrelated.
The article’s purpose is to uncover their shared formal elements and cultural background, as well as eventual links between them. After a short introduction
on the emergence and setting of a multilayered magical tradition in Judaism between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, it delves into the characteristics and comparison of rites, which developed in parallel. On the one hand, it focuses on the malbush ritual, which involves the fabrication
of a dress for the «clothing» of the practitioner with the divine name in order to compel and submit the cosmic powers ruling over time, elements and creatures. The instruction is transmitted in different, pre-cabbalistic medieval sources: Torat ha-malbush, Sefer ha-yashar, Sefer ha-malbush (etc.). On the
other hand, some evidence of the first golem ritual and an instruction entitled Seder pe‘ulat ha-yeṣirah («Order of the act of formation»), which are based
on the use of Sefer Yeṣirah and the Tetragrammaton for giving life to creatures, are analyzed. I will shed light on some aspects of the cultural universe
behind these practices, both of which rely on the power of the name of God and on a bodily image of the divine Cosmos
L’eredità di Salomone. La magia ebraica in Italia e nel Mediterraneo
No full textIl volume illustra le alterne fortune (divieti, reticenze, tabù) che hanno accompagnato la pratica della magia nella società ebraica dall’antichità e fino all’età moderna, con particolare riguardo per il contesto italiano e mediterraneo. Le ricerche qui raccolte mostrano la continuità di riti, formule e leggende (in molti casi di origine molto antica) e la vitalità e la ricchezza di dibattiti e dispute mai sopiti sulla segretezza e sull’efficacia dei testi magici, la loro liceità e ammissibilità nell’ebraismo e le articolate risposte alle insinuazioni di una parte del mondo cristiano che descriveva la cultura ebraica come intrisa di elementi superstiziosi
La fine del regno di Sedecia in 2Re e in Geremia
No full textLe volume porte sur les chapitres finaux du Second Livre des Roi et de Jérémie qui sont analysés au niveau philologique et en tant que documents historiques et littéraires. La confrontation des variantes manuscrites des traditions hébraïques, grecques, latines et syriaques, et la comparaison avec des chroniques babyloniennes et d’ouvrages littéraires grecs permettent d’éclairer le processus rédactionnel du texte. Les caractéristiques des recensions - kaige, de Lucien d’Antioche et d’Origène - sont mises en lumière, ainsi que les couches textuelles superposées au noyau originaire semi-légendaire du récit de la chute de Jérusalem (587-586 av. J.-C.). Le livre s’inscrit, d’un côté, dans le cadre de la critique du texte biblique et, de l’autre, dans la recherche sur l’histoire de l’Ancien Israël à travers l’analyse des sources bibliques et extrabibliques
T. WEISS, Sefer Yeṣirah and its Contents. Other Jewish Voices, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2018
No full textRecensione del volume Sefer Yeṣirah and its Contents. Other Jewish Voices, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 201
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