Haim (Howard) Kreisel – Livyat Ḥen: The Work of the Creation, by R. Levi ben Avraham

Critical annotated edition of the third part of treatise six of R. Levi’s encyclopedia, which is devoted to an exegesis of the “Work of Creation”. In this part R. Levi deals with the creation story in the Torah, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the stories of the early generations of humanity. The edition includes both the shorter and longer recensions of this part, as well as a critical edition of the section “Work of Creation” in R. Levi’s encyclopedic poem, “Battei ha-Nefesh ve-ha-Laḥashim”, together with the four medieval commentaries written on this section. The introduction to this volume discusses the author and his works and deals with the historical background to R. Levi’s approach to the “Work of Creation”.