Author: ABRAHAM BEN HANANIAH YAGEL (1553- c.1624)
Title: A valley of vision. The heavenly journey of Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel. Transl. from the Hebrew, with an introduction and commentary by David B. Ruderman.
Description: Philadelphia, Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 1990. XII, 365 pp. Very good copy in good dustj. Oigr. cloth, with (dam.) dustjacket. Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel 1553-c.1624) composed his Hebrew work Gei Hizzayon (A Valley of Vision) in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. This striking text, so different from the other writings of the prolific physician, natural philosopher, and kabbalist, is first an autobiographical account of the vicissitudes of the author's years as a Jewish loan banker. It is also a description of a heavenly journey he is taken on by the soul of his recently deceased father, who visits his son while he is imprisoned in Mantua for debt. Finally, it is a series of theological and moral discussions based on the insights of Judaism, particularly the kabbalah as understood by Yagel and his Italian contemporaries. ISBN: 9780812281682

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