Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9780812250091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Ivan G. Marcus

Opis

In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.