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catalog abstract ""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 in annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebracischen Ubersetungen." "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."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b11655687.
catalog created "2000.".
catalog date "2000".
catalog date "2000.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
catalog description ""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 in annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebracischen Ubersetungen." "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."--Jacket.".
catalog description "1. Purpose and Audience: Perspectives on the Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Alexander Neckam, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Thomas of Cantimpre and Vincent of Beauvais / Johannes B. Voorbij -- 2. Organization of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum maius and of Some Other Latin Encyclopedias. Excursus: Aristotle and Other Greek and Arabic Scientific Sources in Three Thirteenth-Century Latin Encyclopedias / Eva Albrecht -- 3. Medieval Arabic Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy / Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt -- 4. In What Sense Is Averroes an Encyclopedist? / Charles E. Butterworth -- 5. Reflections on the Place of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah in the Tradition of the Medieval Encyclopedia / Jeffrey R. Woolf -- 6. First Hebrew Encyclopedia of Science: Abraham Bar Hiyya's Yesodei ha-Tevunah u-Migdal ha-Emunah / Mercedes Rubio -- 7. Encyclopedic Aspects of Abraham ibn Ezra's Scientific Corpus / Shlomo Sela -- 8. Levi ben Abraham of Villefranche's Controversial Encyclopedia / Warren Zev Harvey -- 9. Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Hokhmah: Its Sources and Use of Sources / Resianne Fontaine -- 10. Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim: Its Sources and Use of Sources / Steven Harvey -- 11. Gershom ben Solomon of Arles' Sha'ar ha-Shamayim: Its Sources and Use of Sources / James T. Robinson -- 12. Logic of the Hebrew Encyclopedias / Charles H. Manekin -- 13. Mathematics in the Midrash ha-Hokhmah of Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen / Tony Levy -- 14. Question of Celestial Matter in the Hebrew Encyclopedias / Ruth Glasner -- 15. Providence, Astrology, and Celestial Influences on the Sublunar World in Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim / Gad Freudenthal -- 16. Some Remarks on Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen and His Encyclopedia, Midrash ha-Hokhmah / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- 17. Soul of the Hebrew Encyclopedists / Alfred L. Ivry.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog extent "xi, 547 p. ;".
catalog identifier "079236242X (hb : alk. paper)".
catalog isPartOf "Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought ; v. 7".
catalog issued "2000".
catalog issued "2000.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
catalog subject "039/.924 21".
catalog subject "AE1 .M43 2000".
catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Hebrew History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Latin History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Jewish learning and scholarship History To 1500.".
catalog subject "Jewish philosophy.".
catalog subject "Philosophy, Jewish.".
catalog subject "Philosophy, Medieval.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Purpose and Audience: Perspectives on the Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Alexander Neckam, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Thomas of Cantimpre and Vincent of Beauvais / Johannes B. Voorbij -- 2. Organization of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum maius and of Some Other Latin Encyclopedias. Excursus: Aristotle and Other Greek and Arabic Scientific Sources in Three Thirteenth-Century Latin Encyclopedias / Eva Albrecht -- 3. Medieval Arabic Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy / Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt -- 4. In What Sense Is Averroes an Encyclopedist? / Charles E. Butterworth -- 5. Reflections on the Place of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah in the Tradition of the Medieval Encyclopedia / Jeffrey R. Woolf -- 6. First Hebrew Encyclopedia of Science: Abraham Bar Hiyya's Yesodei ha-Tevunah u-Migdal ha-Emunah / Mercedes Rubio -- 7. Encyclopedic Aspects of Abraham ibn Ezra's Scientific Corpus / Shlomo Sela -- 8. Levi ben Abraham of Villefranche's Controversial Encyclopedia / Warren Zev Harvey -- 9. Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Hokhmah: Its Sources and Use of Sources / Resianne Fontaine -- 10. Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim: Its Sources and Use of Sources / Steven Harvey -- 11. Gershom ben Solomon of Arles' Sha'ar ha-Shamayim: Its Sources and Use of Sources / James T. Robinson -- 12. Logic of the Hebrew Encyclopedias / Charles H. Manekin -- 13. Mathematics in the Midrash ha-Hokhmah of Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen / Tony Levy -- 14. Question of Celestial Matter in the Hebrew Encyclopedias / Ruth Glasner -- 15. Providence, Astrology, and Celestial Influences on the Sublunar World in Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's De'ot ha-Filosofim / Gad Freudenthal -- 16. Some Remarks on Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen and His Encyclopedia, Midrash ha-Hokhmah / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- 17. Soul of the Hebrew Encyclopedists / Alfred L. Ivry.".
catalog title "The medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy: proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference / edited by Steven Harvey.".
catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "text".