Book Description
Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.
Author : Gad Freudenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107001455
Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.
Author : Gad Freudenthal
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Jewish scientists
ISBN : 9781139080477
Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.
Author : Resianne Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004191240
An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,
Author : Ehud Krinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110702320
In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe. This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.
Author : Noah J. Efron
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2014-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1421413817
Rejecting the idea that Jews have done well in science because of uniquely Jewish traits, Jewish brains, and Jewish habits of mind, this book approaches the Jewish affinity for science through the geographic and cultural circumstances of Jews who were compelled to settle in new worlds in the early twentieth century.
Author : Shlomo Sela
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004129733
This book studies Abraham Ibn Ezra's (1089-1167) scientific thought. His life and oeuvre are viewed 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 scientific ideas.
Author : David B. Ruderman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814329313
A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world
Author : David I. Shyovitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0812249119
In A Remembrance of His Wonders, David I. Shyovitz uncovers the sophisticated ways in which medieval Ashkenazic Jews engaged with the workings and meaning of the natural world, and traces the porous boundaries between medieval science and mysticism, nature and the supernatural, and ultimately, Christians and Jews.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004387862
First published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.
Author : Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
The aim of this volume is to explore Jewish participation in the scientific enterprise of the Middle Ages. It looks at the way in which Jews saw scientific knowledge as well as the contributions made by particular Jewish scholars.