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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1571-7283
- eISSN
- 1875-0214
- DOI
- 10.1163/187502104788638697
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
F D C : S T I R G : , : , : Immanuel of Rome (c. -before ), the ‘ Hebrew Dante ’ , was a poet and belletrist of the highest order. He was also an exegete, and a very prolific one. According to his own testimony, he wrote commen- taries on all ‘ twenty-four books ’ of the Hebrew Bible. Thirteen of these commentaries survive in manuscript, but only three have been published in full, and none in a proper critical edition. Immanuel ’ s biblical commentaries are strongly philosophical; as he wrote in his Mahberot , they reveal the ‘ hidden secrets ’ and ‘ marvelous mysteries ’ of Scripture. But what they are not is original. In fact, it is becoming more and more evident that Immanuel was, despite his claims of originality, far more compilator than original exegete. In his commen- taries, he draws extensively from the writings and commentaries of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries, especially Abraham bar Hiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Samuel ibn Tibbon,
Journal
Zutot – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004