About this book

Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1167), the Andalusian-Jewish exegete, mathematician and astrologer, wrote on the Hebrew letters, the divine names, gematria, the mazzalot, the 28 lunar mansions and the theory of precession. Sefer ha-Shem ("Book of the Name," 1148) is his treatise on the divine Name and the properties of the Hebrew letters; the complete Furth 1834 edition (PDF scan, 83 pp.) is hosted here. (His astronomical Reshit Hokhmah is not available as a complete free edition and is cited in the paper Sec.12.2 rather than hosted.)

Relevance to this project

A primary Hebrew source for the letter-attribute and divine-name material the paper’s theophoric-name analysis rests on, and for Ibn Ezra’s mazzalot / 28-mansion / precession substrate (Sec.9, historic-sourcing).

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