SEPHER YETSIRAH

("THE BOOK OF FORMATION")

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Rev. Dr. Isidore Kalisch.

Sepher Yez[t]irah. A Book of Creation; or the Jewish Metaphysics… New York: L.H. Frank & Co. 1877. Text + Trans.

Kaplan, Aryeh, (trans. and ed.)

Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Creation In Theory and Practise. Rev. ed. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser  Inc. 1997.

Goldschmidt, Lazarus,

Sefer Yetsirah. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,   1969.

 Kalisch, Isador (trans. and ed.),

The Sepher Yezirah: the Book of Formation. Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1987.

Lambert, Mayer (trans. and ed.)

Commentarie sur le Sefer Yesira de la creation, par le gaon Saadya de Fayyoum (Paris: E. Bouillon, 1891)

Moucka, Ladislav,

Sefer Jecira [Czech and Hebrew] (Praha: Pudorys, c1991, 1993)

 Papus, Gerard Encausse,

The Qabalah: secret tradition of the West [complete translation of the Sepher Yetzirah] (Wellingborough: Thorsons, 1977) [translated from the French]

 Pincherle, Mario,

Fonti Archeologiche della magia: il Sfr Isire, primo libro dell’umanita (Ancona: Filelfo, 1977)

 Toaff, Gadiel (ed.),

Sefer Yezirah: il libro della creazione (Roma: Carucci, 1979)

 Vainshtok, Ben-Tsiyon Mosheh Ya’ir (ed.)

Sefer Yetsirah ha-Shalem (Jerusalem: ha    Makhon le-hotsa’at kitve yad ve-sifre Maran ha-Mehaber ha-Gaon ha-mekubal ha-tsadik Rabi Mosheh Ya’ir Vainshtok; New York: Li-fenot-nekhed ha mekhaber  Sh. A. Vainshtok, 1982/3)

 Ben-Shamai, Haggai,

 "Saadya's Goal in his 'Commentary on Sefer Yezira'," in Ruth Link Salinger (ed.), A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture (Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1988), pp. 1-9

 Chaze, Micheline,

"De l'identification des Patriarches au char divin: recherches du sens d'un enseignement rabbinique dans le Midrash et dans la Kabbale prezoharique et    ses sources," REJ 149:1-3 (1990), 5-75

 Dan, Joseph,

 "The Language of Creation and its Grammar," in Dan, Joseph (ed.), Jewish Mysticism I (Northvale NJ: J. Aaronson, 1998), pp. 129-154 

 "Three Phases of the History of Sefer Yesira," in Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 21 (1994), pp. 7-29 [appears in Dan, Joseph (ed.), Jewish Mysticism (Northvale NJ: J. Aaronson, 1998-1999), pp. 155-187

 Diamond, Jeffrey,

"Sefer Yetsirah--el Libro de la Creacion," El Oliva 39 (1994), pp. 21-27

 Finkel, Asher,

 "The Exegetic Elements of the Cosmosophical Work, Sefer Yesirah," in

 Gruenwald, I.,

“A Prelimimary Critical Edition of Sefer Yesira,” IOS 1 (1971), 132-177

  “Some Critical Notes on the First Part of Sefer Yesira,” REJ 132 (1973), 474-512

 Hayman,  Peter, A.

        "Qohelet and the Book of Creation," JSOT 50 (1991), 95-111

  • 1984 "Some Observations on Sefer Yesira : (1) Its Use of Scripture", Journal of Jewish Studies, XXXV.1, 1-17.
  • 1986 "Some Observations on Sefer Yesira : (2) The Temple at the Centre of the Universe", Journal of Jewish Studies, XXXVII.2, 176-182.
  • 1986 "Sefer Yesira (The Book of Creation)", Shadow, 3.1, 20-38.
  • 1989 "Was God a Magician? Sefer Yesira and Jewish Magic", Journal of Jewish Studies, XLI.2, 225-237

 "Some Observations on Sefer Yesira: 1. Its Uses of Scripture 2. The Temple at the Centre of the Universe," JJS 35:2 (1984), 168-184; 37:2 (1986),  175-182

"The Doctrine of Creation in Sefer Yesira: Some Text-Critical Problems," in Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle (ed.) Rashi, 1040-1990: Hommage a Ephraim E. Urbach.  Congres Europeen des Etudes Juives [IV, 1990] (Paris: Cerf, 1993), pp. 219-227

"The 'Original Text': a Scholarly Illusion," in Jon Davies, Graham Harvey, and Wilfred G.E. Watson (eds.) World Remembered  Texts: Essays in Honour of John F.A. Sawyer (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 434-449

 “Sefer Yesira and the Hekhalot Literature,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1987)  , 71-85.

 "Was God a Magician? Sefer Yesira and Jewish Magic," JJS 40:2     (1989), 225-237

 Hermann, Klaus,

"'Feuer aus Wasser': sum Fortleben eines enbekannten Sefer Yesira Kommentars in der hekhalot-Literatur," Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 20 (1993), 49-95 Herrera, R.A. (ed.), Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics, and Typologies  (NewYork, NY: Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 45-55

 Jospe, Raphael,

 "Early Philosophical Commentaries on the 'Sefer Yezirah': Some Comments," REJ 149:4 (1990), 369-415

Kiener, Ronald C.,

 "Saadia and the 'Sefer Yetzirah': Translation Theory in Classical Jewish Thought," in Biderman, Shlomo & Scharfstein, Ben-Ami (eds.), Interpretation in Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), pp. 169-179

 Kuyt, Annelies,

 "The Haside Ashkenaz and their Mystical Sources: Continuity and Innovation," in Ulf Haxen, Hanne Trautner-Kromann, & Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon (eds.), Jewish Studies in a New Europe: Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Copenhagen 1994 (Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1998), pp. 462-471

 Lacerenza, Giancarlo,

 "Il sangue fra microcosmo e macrocosmo nel commento di Sabbatai Donnolo al 'Sefer Jesirah," Atti della VI Settimana di Studi (1991), pp. 389-417

 Langermann, Y. Tzvi,

"A New Redaction of Sefer Yesira," Kabbalah 2 (1997), 49-64

 Loewenthal, Elena,

"Per una rilettura della premessa di Shabbetay Donnolo al commento al Sefer Yesirah: un capitolo inedito," Henoch 9:3 (1987), 345-352

 Pines, Shlomo,

"Points of Similarity Between the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Sefirot in the 'Sefer Yezira' and a text of Pseudo-Clementine 'Homilies': the Implications of this Resemblance," Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Proceedings 7:3 (1989), 63-142 [= Warren Zev Harvey & Moshe Idel (eds.), Studies in the History of Jewish Thought by Shlomo Pines (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1997)]

 Scholem, Gershom,

“Sefer Yesira,” Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1973),   Vol. 16, pp. 782-788

Sed, Nicola,

"Rashi et le Pseudo-Sefer Yesirah," in Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle (ed.) Rashi, 1040-1990: Hommage a Ephraim E. Urbach.  Congres Europeen des Etudes   Juives [IV, 1990] (Paris: Cerf, 1993), pp. 237-250

 Smirnov, Andrey V., 

"The Universe as a Phenomenon of Language: Sa`adiah Gaon's Commentary to the 'Book of Creation'," in Raphael Jospe (ed.), Paradigms in Jewish Philosophy (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997), pp. 87-111

Stenring, Knut (ed. Trans.)

Sefer Yetsirah] The Book of formation (Sepher Yetzirah) by Akiba ben Joseph. Translated from the Hebrew, with annotations, by Knut Stenring. Incl. the 32 paths of wisdom, their correspondence with the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot symbols. With an introd. by Arthur Edward Waite. New York, Ktav Pub. House, 1970

Vaynshtok, Bentsiyon Mosheh Ya`ir (ed.)

Sefer Yetsirah ha-Shalem (Jerusalem: Defus S. Vaynfeld, 1965)

 Wasserstrom, Steven M.,

 "Sefer Yesira and Early Islam: A Reappraisel," JJTP 3:1 (1993),  1-30

Westcott, W. Wynn,

The Book of Creation: with a Bibliography of Modern Translations (Cambridge, England: I.A.M., 1978)

 

The Book of Formation and the Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom (London: Theosophical Pub. Society; New York: The Path, 1893)