ABSTRACT
Graetz devoted even less space to Sefer Hasidim than had Zunz, but he was less inhibited in choosing his quotations. A few years after the publication of Gudemann’s analysis of ed. Bologna, Jehuda Wistinetzki published the Parma manuscript, SHP, a complete second version of Sefer Hasidim. This recension of 1983 paragraphs, as against SHB’s 1178, offered scholars new data for the study of the original Sefer Hasidim. Moreover, the disclosure of the complete topical structure makes it necessary to revise Freimann’s conclusions about the relative lateness of ed. Bologna compared with the Parma manuscript. Indeed, as a broad generalization, Freimann’s thesis is rather misleading. From Freimann’s words, one would assume that the passages from the pairs of related, though separated, blocs from SHP would be found together in SHB as discrete blocs and in the same order as in SHP.
