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• catalog abstract "In this monumental work, Raphael Patai, acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves) and The Hebrew Goddess, opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Among the myriad subjects treated in the book is the close relationship between alchemy and medicine as practiced by Jewish adepts. Other Jewish alchemists combined alchemy with magic or with kabbalistic practices. Still others became, through their alchemical efforts, the forerunners of modern chemistry. The culmination of many years of research, The Jewish Alchemists shows that alchemy was much more than the attempt at transmuting base metals into gold: it was a powerful worldview that assumed an essential unity underlying all of nature - and the power of humans to intervene, with God's help, in nature's course.".
• catalog contributor b5745561.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Biblical Figures as Alchemists -- Alchemy in Bible and Talmud? -- The Hellenistic Age -- Jews in Hellenistic Alchemy -- Maria the Jewess -- Zosimus on Maria the Jewess -- The Early Arab World -- Abufalah's Alchemy -- A Hebrew Version of the Book of Alums and Salts -- Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid -- The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries -- Artephius -- The Great Jewish Philosophers -- Kabbalah and Alchemy: A Reconsideration -- The Fourteenth Century -- Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist -- The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew -- Flamel's Jewish Masters -- Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists -- Abraham Eleazar -- Themo Judaei -- The Fifteenth Century -- Simeon ben Semah Duran -- Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master -- Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica -- Isaac Hollandus and His Son John Isaac -- Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo -- Pseudo-Maimonides -- Three Kuzari Commentators -- The Sixteenth Century -- Esh Msaref: A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise -- Taitazak and Provencali -- Hayyim Vital, Alchemist -- An Alchemical Miscellany -- Labi, Hamawi, and Portaleone -- The Manchester (John Rylands) Manuscript -- The Seventeenth Century -- Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah -- Four Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts -- Benjamin Mussafia -- Benjamin Jesse -- The Eighteenth Century -- Hayyim Shmuel Falck -- The Comte de Saint-Germain -- Jacob Emden; de Bar Ilan Manuscript -- The Nineteenth Century -- An Alchemical Manuscript from Jerba -- Mordecai Abi Serour -- Conclusion: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy.".
• catalog description "In this monumental work, Raphael Patai, acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves) and The Hebrew Goddess, opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Among the myriad subjects treated in the book is the close relationship between alchemy and medicine as practiced by Jewish adepts. Other Jewish alchemists combined alchemy with magic or with kabbalistic practices. Still others became, through their alchemical efforts, the forerunners of modern chemistry. The culmination of many years of research, The Jewish Alchemists shows that alchemy was much more than the attempt at transmuting base metals into gold: it was a powerful worldview that assumed an essential unity underlying all of nature - and the power of humans to intervene, with God's help, in nature's course.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [543]-587) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 617 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0691006423 (pbk)".
• catalog identifier "0691032904 (acid-free paper) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog subject "540/.11/2089924 20".
• catalog subject "Alchemy History.".
• catalog subject "Alchemy.".
• catalog subject "Jewish alchemists.".
• catalog subject "Jews History.".
• catalog subject "QD24.A2 P38 1994".
• catalog subject "WZ 80.5.J3 P294j 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "Biblical Figures as Alchemists -- Alchemy in Bible and Talmud? -- The Hellenistic Age -- Jews in Hellenistic Alchemy -- Maria the Jewess -- Zosimus on Maria the Jewess -- The Early Arab World -- Abufalah's Alchemy -- A Hebrew Version of the Book of Alums and Salts -- Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid -- The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries -- Artephius -- The Great Jewish Philosophers -- Kabbalah and Alchemy: A Reconsideration -- The Fourteenth Century -- Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist -- The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew -- Flamel's Jewish Masters -- Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists -- Abraham Eleazar -- Themo Judaei -- The Fifteenth Century -- Simeon ben Semah Duran -- Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master -- Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica -- Isaac Hollandus and His Son John Isaac -- Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo -- Pseudo-Maimonides -- Three Kuzari Commentators -- The Sixteenth Century -- Esh Msaref: A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise -- Taitazak and Provencali -- Hayyim Vital, Alchemist -- An Alchemical Miscellany -- Labi, Hamawi, and Portaleone -- The Manchester (John Rylands) Manuscript -- The Seventeenth Century -- Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah -- Four Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts -- Benjamin Mussafia -- Benjamin Jesse -- The Eighteenth Century -- Hayyim Shmuel Falck -- The Comte de Saint-Germain -- Jacob Emden; de Bar Ilan Manuscript -- The Nineteenth Century -- An Alchemical Manuscript from Jerba -- Mordecai Abi Serour -- Conclusion: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy.".
• catalog title "The Jewish alchemists : a history and source book / Raphael Patai.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".