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Abraham Ibn Ezra, The Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-english Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text (Études Sur Le Judaïsme Medieval, 35) (English and Hebrew Edition)

By Shlomo Sela (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2007
ISBN
9004157646, 9789004157644
Language
englishhebrew
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2309887 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
412\413
Time added
2024-02-16 14:39:37

Description

From the Middle Ages until the present, the development of astrology among Jews was associated mainly with the name of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167). His scientific corpus deals with mathematics, astronomy, scientific instruments and tools, and the Jewish calendar; but especially with astrology. This volume is the first product of a larger enterprise--a scientific edition of all twelve Ibn Ezra's astrological treatises--and offers a critical Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Te'amim, the Book of Reasons, accompanied by an annotated translation and commentary. The two treatises presented here were designed by Ibn Ezra to offer "reasons", "explanations", or "meanings" of the raw astrological concepts formulated in the introduction to astrology that Ibn Ezra entitled Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom).

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