The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference

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S. Harvey
Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 29, 2013 - Philosophy - 549 pages
In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference. This volume also includes an annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen.
The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias.
 

Contents

Perspectives on the Thirteenth
31
The Organization of Vincent of Beauvais Speculum
46
Sources in Three ThirteenthCentury Latin Encyclopedias
58
Medieval Arabic Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy
76
In What Sense Is Averroes an Encyclopedist?
103
Reflections on the Place of Maimonides Mishneh Torah
121
Abraham
140
Encyclopedic Aspects of Abraham ibn Ezras Scientific
154
Providence Astrology and Celestial Influences on the Sub
335
Some Remarks on Judah ben Solomon haCohen
371
The Soul of the Hebrew Encyclopedists
390
The Place of Aristotelian Metaphysics in the Thirteenth
414
A FourteenthCentury
429
The Hebrew Encyclopedias of the Renaissance
441
Addendum Steinschneider on the Medieval Hebrew
465
Bibliography
520

Levi ben Abraham of Villefranches Controversial
171
The Logic of the Hebrew Encyclopedias
283
Mathematics in the Midrash haHokhmah of Judah
300
The Question of Celestial Matter in the Hebrew
313

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