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Late dating (Syriac / Islamic milieu)

Dates the work to the 7th-9th c., in a Syriac-Christian or early-Islamic milieu of letter-speculation, against Scholem's late-antique dating.

Tzahi Weiss · Steven M. Wasserstrom

Readings in this camp 2

• Tzahi Weissengine

  7th c., a Syriac-Christian letter-speculation milieu

  on Sefer Yetzirah 1:1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten sefirot

• Steven M. Wasserstromengine

  early-Islamic 9th c.; al-Ma’mun’s milieu, Shi’ite letter-theory

  on Sefer Yetzirah 1:1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten sefirot