Home›Open Questions›Who compiled Sefer HaRazim, and can its date be fixed more precisely within the late antique period?Open QuestionsWho compiled Sefer HaRazim, and can its date be fixed more precisely within the late antique period?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Who compiled Sefer HaRazim, and can its date be fixed more precisely within the late antique period?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-compiled-sefer-ha-razim-and-when.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Who compiled Sefer HaRazim, and can its date be fixed more precisely within the late antique period?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-compiled-sefer-ha-razim-and-whenCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-who-compiled-sefer-harazim-and-can-its-d, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Who compiled Sefer HaRazim, and can its date be fixed more precisely within the late antique period?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/who-compiled-sefer-ha-razim-and-when}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe text presents itself as angelic revelation rather than the work of a named human author, and it survives in no single complete manuscript, only later medieval copies and Cairo Geniza fragments assembled into a modern critical reconstruction, so neither its compiler nor a precise date can be read directly off any single witness.What would resolve this An earlier or more complete manuscript witness, or an external contemporary reference to the text, would help fix its date and origin; comparative philological work situating its Greek-influenced Hebrew more precisely within the late antique Jewish magical corpus could narrow the range further.OpenJewish studies and late antique magical and esoteric textual studiesMichael A. Morgan, translator, based on Mordecai Margalioth's critical Hebrew reconstruction, Sefer Ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries (Michael A. Morgan)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSefer HaRazim (Book of the Mysteries), Esoteric Texts Well-attested Source Sefer Ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries (Michael A. Morgan)Michael A. Morgan, translator, based on Mordecai Margalioth's critical Hebrew reconstructiontier 1SourcesSefer Ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries (Michael A. Morgan)tier 1Michael A. Morgan, translator, based on Mordecai Margalioth's critical Hebrew reconstruction, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, Chico, California, 1983Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year