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As a result of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s increasing popularity after his death, there were repeated waves of translation of collections of his Hebrew astrological treatises into Latin and into the emerging European vernaculars. A study of these versions affords us a golden opportunity to shed light on a significant missing link in our knowledge of Ibn Ezra’s astrological oeuvre. The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of three Latin texts on the astrological doctrines of elections and interrogations, written by or attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Liber electionum , the Liber interrogationum , and the Tractatus particulares.

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The present volume offers a critical edition of the Hebrew texts, accompanied by English translation and commentary of Reshit Ḥokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom) and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot (Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs) by Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089–ca. 1161). The first, the summa and by far the longest of his astrological works, the target of the most cross-references from the rest of that corpus and the most influential, enjoyed the widest circulation among Jews in the Middle Ages and after. The second, by contrast, is the most obscure. It is never referred to elsewhere by its author and is the only work for which Ibn Ezra’s authorship must be substantiated. Reshit Ḥokhmah and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot were written in order to explain concepts common to the various branches of astrology that Ibn Ezra addressed elsewhere and to elucidate the worldview that underlies astrology. These two treatises are the richest and most varied with regard to the astrological information they present. Reshit Ḥokhmah and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot also exemplify the close collaboration between astronomy and astrology in medieval science and are the two components of Ibn Ezra’s astrological corpus with the most extensive, comprehensive, and significant astronomical content.

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The main focus of this book is the study of Abraham Ibn Ezra's (1089-1167) scientific thought within the historical and cultural context of his times. His scientific contribution may be understood as the very embodiment of 'the rise of medieval Hebrew science', a process in which Jewish scholars gradually adopted the holy tongue as a vehicle to express secular and scientific ideas. The first part provides a comprehensive picture of Ibn Ezra's scientific corpus. The second part studies his linguistic strategy. The third and fourth parts study Ibn Ezra's introductions to his scientific treatises and the fifth part is devoted to studying four 'encounters' with Claudius Ptolemy, the main scientific character featuring in Ibn Ezra's literary work.

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Jewish astrology. --- 296*62 --- Astrology, Jewish --- Astrology --- Joodse theologie en filosofie in de middeleeuwen --- 296*62 Joodse theologie en filosofie in de middeleeuwen --- Jewish astrology

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Shabbetai Donnolo was a Jewish doctor born in Southern Italy in 913 AD when it was part of the Byzantine Empire. He is best known as the author of a herbal and traditionally as one of the founders of Europe's first medical school at Salerno. However, his medical reputation has overshadowed his cosmological writings, the most important of which is his Sefer Hakhmoni , a title implying Wisdom. As pharmacy and medicine in the tenth century were inextricably interwoven with astrology and cosmology Donnolo sets out his idea of a divinely created universe, with man in the image of God, based on a synthesis of contemporary thought. Professor Sharf shows how Donnolo's cosmology is a striking blend of his mystical inheritance from the Judaism of his birth, the Christian culture of his homeland and the Islamic astronomy which he studied, with the down-to-earth, plain and practical mind of the doctor.

Cabala. --- Jewish astrology. --- Jewish cosmology. --- Kabbale --- Astrologie juive --- Cosmologie juive --- Donnolo, Shabbetai, --- Sefer Yezirah. --- Apedemak (Egyptian deity) --- Meroë (Sudan) --- Apedemak (Egyptian deity). --- Meroe (Extinct city) --- Religion. --- Cabala --- Jewish astrology --- Jewish cosmology --- Donnolo, Shabbetai, - 913-approximately 982. - Sefer ḥakhmoni --- Sefer Yeẓirah.