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Author | : Gad Freudenthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107001455 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jewish scientists |
ISBN | : 9781139080477 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004191240 |
Download Studies in the History of Culture and Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110702266 |
Download Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2014-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1421413817 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004500979 |
Download Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : David I. Shyovitz |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812249119 |
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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 | : Noah J. Efron |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780313330537 |
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Judaism and Science canvases three millennia of Jewish attitudes towards nature and its study. It answers many questions about the complex relationship of religion and science. How did religious attitudes and dogmas affect Jewish attitudes towards natural knowledge? How was Jewish interest in science reflected, and was facilitated by, links with other cultures - Egypt and Assyria and Babylon in ancient times, Moslem culture in medieval times, and Christian culture during the Renaissance and since? How did science serve as a bridge between religious communities that were otherwise estranged and embattled? How did science serve as a vehicle of assimilation into the wider intellectual culture in which Jews found themselves? The book considers the attitudes and work of particular Jews in different epochs. It takes an eagle's-eye view of its subject, considering broad themes from a high vantage, but also swooping down to consider particular individuals at high focus, and in detail. Judaism and Science encompasses the entire history of the interaction of Jews and natural knowledge. ; Part I: The Sages of Israel and Natural Wisdom describes the images of nature and natural philosophy in the two most important sets of books on the Jewish bookshelf: the Biblical corpus and the Talmudic/Early Rabbinic corpus ; Part II: Jews and Natural Philosophy shows how Jews explained nature, especially the nature of the heavens, or astronomy and astrology, in medieval times and early modern times. ; Part III: Jews and Science — describes the entry of Jews into modern science, beginning in 19th century Europe and 20th century United States, USSR and Israel, emphasizing the social background of the rapid entry of Jews into modern sciences, and of their remarkable successes. ; The volume includes annotated primary source documents, a timeline of important events, and an bibliography of essential primary and secondary sources for further research.
Author | : Robert Chazan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2010-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139493043 |
Download Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West.
Author | : Paul E. Szarmach |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438421699 |
Download Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These are the papers and discussions of the eighth annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton. The topics discussed were the relationship between Jewish and medieval studies, the patristic basis for Christian attitudes on the Jews, the Hispanic literary tradition, Jewish Spain, problems in Jewish art, and myth criticism and medieval studies.