“The Italian Genizah”: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-42
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Hebrew

Colors of Eclipses in Medieval Hebrew Astronomical Tables

Aleph ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Hebrew

The Establishment of the Mathematical Bookshelf of the Medieval Hebrew Scholar: Translations and Translators

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony LÉvy
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Mathematical Activity ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Wide Readership ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

The ArgumentThe major part of the mathematical “classics” in Hebrew were translated from Arabic between the second third of the thirteenth century and the first third of the fourteenth century, within the northern littoral of the western Mediterranean. This movement occurred after the original works by Abraham bar Hiyya and Abraham ibn Ezra became available to a wide readership. The translations were intended for a restricted audience — the scholarly readership involved in and dealing with the theoretical sciences. In some cases the translators themselves were professional scientists (e.g., Jacob ben Makhir); in other cases they were, so to speak, professional translators, dealing as well with philosophy, medicine, and other works in Arabic.In aketshing this portrait of the beginning of Herbrew scholarly mathematics, my aim has been to contribute to a better understanding of mathematical activity as such among Jewish communities during this period.

Spectroscopic Studies of Atypically Illuminated Medieval Hebrew Bible in Comparison to a XV Century Western Manuscript

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gruchalska ◽  
Anna Rogulska ◽  
Grzegorz Rusek ◽  
Barbara I. Łydżba-Kopczyńska ◽  
P. M. Champion ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Spectroscopic Studies ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cairo Genizah ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

The study of medieval Judaism was revolutionized by the late S. D. Goitein with A Mediterranean Society, his multilayered study of the medieval Jewish communities in Egypt based on the documents from the Cairo Genizah. For while previously the Genizah had been mined for important rabbinic documents and for the history of the philosophers and Geonim, Goitein's research sought to provide an account of the religion and life of all classes of society.

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