The first project is devoted to Keter Shem Ṭov or "Crown of the Good Name” which dates back to the 13^th century and is attributed to Abraham ben Axelrod of Cologne.

The German Research Foundation approved the funding of this project involving the Department for Jewish Studies and the Institute of Computer Science both at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany. … more

This project is dedicated to the following aspects of the kabbalistic and magical activities of Rabbi Moses Zacuto (ca.1610–1697):

• Studying Zacuto’s interest in practical Kabbalah and the Kabbalah of holy names
• Preparing critical editions of his Sefer ha-Sodot (“The Book of Secrets”) and other works of him related to practical Kabbalah
• Locating and systematizing Zacuto’s correspondence
• Understanding the impact of magic on his halakhic and kabbalistic writings

The “Encyclopedic Magic. A Synergetic Approach to Rabbi Moses Zacuto’s Sources of Practical and Theoretical Kabbalah” project is situated at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, grant no. NE 1724/5-1). … more

The third project will produce modern scholarly editions of three bodies of work:

1. First, the extant correspondence of Rabbi Moses Zacuto (ca. 1610–1697) that are foundational for understanding his life and works will be published as both a digital and a printed edition.
2. The second sub-project is a database of Hebrew Holy Names. This database will be built upon the collection of holy names Moses Zacuto assembled in the seventeenth century.
3. Finally, the first scholarly edition of a hitherto unknown text belonging to the tradition of Israel Saruq, titled “One Hundred and Twenty-One Ways [of Interpretation]” (Quf Kaf Alef Ofanim), will be made available.

The German Science Foundation (DFG) funded project “The Corpus of R. Moses Zacuto’s Correspondence and Lexica of Holy Names: Editions, Tools, and Database” is situated at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva. … more