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Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific tradition and appropriated extensive bodies of scientific knowledge in various disciplines: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, logic, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, science of language and medicine. The appropriated texts - in the original or in Hebrew translation - were the starting points for Jews' own contributions to medieval science and also informed other literary genres: religious-philosophical works, biblical commentaries and even Halakhic (legal) discussions. This volume's essays will provide readers with background knowledge of medieval scientific thought necessary to properly understand canonical Jewish scientific texts. Its breadth reflects the number and diversity of Jewish cultures in the Middle Ages and the necessity of considering the fortunes of science in each within its specific context.

Title Science in medieval Jewish cultures / edited by Gad Freudenthal. [electronic resource]
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Introduction: the history of science in medieval Jewish cultures: toward a definition of the agenda / Gad Freudenthal -- Part I. The Greek-Arabic Scientific Tradition and its Appropriation, Adaptation, and Development in Medieval Jewish Cultures, East and West: 1. The assimilation of Greco-Arabic learning by medieval Jewish cultures: a brief bibliographic introduction / Gad Freudenthal
2. Medieval Hebrew translations of philosophical and scientific texts: a chronological table / Mauro Zonta
3. Arabic and Latin cultures as resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement: comparative considerations, both quantitative and qualitative / Gad Freudenthal
4. The production of Hebrew scientific books according to dated medieval manuscripts / Malachi Beit-Arié -- Part II. Individual Sciences as Studied and Practiced by Medieval Jews: 5. Logic in medieval Jewish culture / Charles H. Manekin
6. Astronomy among Jews in the Middle Ages / Bernard R. Goldstein
7. Interactions between Jewish and Christian Astronomers in the Iberian Peninsula / José Chabás
8. The Hebrew mathematics culture (twelfth-sixteenth centuries) / Tony Lévy
9. Mathematical and physical optics in medieval Jewish scientific thought / Eyal Meiron
10. The evolution of the genre of philosophical-scientific commentary: Hebrew supercommentaries on Aristotle's Physics / Ruth Glasner
11. Latin scholastic influences on late medieval Hebrew physics: the state of the art / Mauro Zonta
12. Meteorology and zoology in medieval Hebrew science / Resianne Fontaine
13. The mental faculties and the psychology of sleep and dreams / Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
14. Toward a history of Hebrew astrological literature: a bibliographical survey / Reimund Leicht
15. Astrology in medieval Jewish thought (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) / Shlomo Sela
16. Astral magic and specific properties (Segullot) in medieval Jewish thought: non-Aristotelian science and theology / Dov Schwartz
17. Medicine among medieval Jews
the science, the art, and the practice / Carmen Caballero-Navas
18. Medieval alchemy in medieval Jewish cultures: a noted absence / Gad Freudenthal
19. The science of language among medieval Jews / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Part III. Scientific Knowledge in Context: 20. Medieval Karaism and science / Daniel J. Lasker
21. Science in the Jewish communities of the Byzantine cultural orbit: new perspectives / Y. Tzvi Langermann
22. Philosophy and science in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Bible / James T. Robinson
23. Kabbalah and science in the Middle Ages: preliminary remarks / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
24. History, language, and the sciences in medieval Spain / Eleazar Gutwirth.
Extent 1 online resource (xii, 547 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010719306805171
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