R. Abraham Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Torah has generally been acknowledged as the rationalist commentary par excellence. From the time of its appearance in the mid-twelfth century till the present day it has been widely studied for its explanations of the literal meaning of verses of the Torah as well as for the philosophic-scientific "secrets" it contains. Over the centuries numerous supercommentaries have been written on this commentary. The goal of this project is to publish in critical editions some of the earliest supercommentaries on R. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Torah Commentary. The editor-in-chief of this project is Prof. Haim Kreisel and the managing editor of the site is Mr. Asher Binyamin.
This project has received funding from the Israel Science Foundation, grant no. 9/11
The first five supercommentaries that we intent to publish are:
- R. Moshe ben Yehudah (Italy, mid-fourteenth century) - edited by Ofer Elior. (To the commentary)
- "Avvat Nephesh" (Provence, early fourteenth century) - edited by Haim Kreisel. (To the commentary)
- R. Elazar ben Mattitya (Byzantium, late thirteenth century) - edited by Orly Shoshan
- R. Joseph Kaspi (Provence, early fourteenth century) - edited by David Benzazon and Haim Kreisel
- R. Yeshaya ben Meir (Provence, early fourteenth century) - edited by Eliezer Davidowicz and Haim Kreisel
We have also published a volume containing an eclectic version of each of these commentaries together with the commentary of Ibn Ezra, as well as articles on each of the commentators (
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For more information about this project please contact Haim Kreisel: kreisel@bgu.ac.il
