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The Creation of the World in the Sefer Yetzirah

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The Sefer Yetzirah is the "Book of Creation", one of the earliest extant texts about the creation of the world of the Jewish tradition, a book that some scholars are supposing of an early Medieval origin. The Sefer tells the origin of the world as it was revealed to Abraham, in a cosmogony based on numbers and letters of the alphabet, through their combinations and permutations. The reading of this book can be interesting for a comparison to the thoughts of some medieval philosophers, Al-Farabi, Ibn Gabirol, Robert Grosseteste and others, about the primordial point and its spatial extensions.

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2014. "The Creation of the World in the Sefer Yetzirah," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 3(05), pages 11-17, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:adm:journl:v:3:y:2014:i:5:p:11-17
    DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.498
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    1. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2014. "Robert Grosseteste's Thought on Light and Form of the World," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 3(04), pages 54-62, April.
    2. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "The Generation of Sounds According to Robert Grosseteste," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(10), pages 1-5, October.
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    Cosmogony; Ancient cosmology;

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