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Text-critical (the recensions)

Treats Sefer Yetzirah as a fluid text surviving in distinct recensions (long, short, Saadyan); the task is a critical edition, not a single authoritative text.

Ithamar Gruenwald

Readings in this camp 1

• Ithamar Gruenwaldengine

  three recensions (long / short / Saadyan); the printed texts are defective

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