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Abraham Ibn Ezra the Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition
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Abraham Ibn Ezra the Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text Hardcover - 2007

by Shlomo Sela


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  • Title Abraham Ibn Ezra the Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text
  • Author Shlomo Sela
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Bilingual
  • Pages 412
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill, Leiden
  • Date 2007
  • ISBN 9789004157644 / 9004157646
  • Weight 1.97 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.6 x 1.16 in (24.28 x 16.76 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007036358
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133

About the author

Shlomo Sela, Ph.D (1998) in History of Science, Tel-Aviv University, is a lecturer in the Bible and Jewish Philosophy Departments at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. He has recently published Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science (Brill, 2003).
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Abraham Ibn Ezra The Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text

by Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (author); Shlomo Sela (editor & translator)

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Leiden: Brill, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. viii, (4), 398pp. Index, bibliography and glossary. Text in English and Hebrew. Green buckram lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. From the Middle Ages until the present, the development of astrology among Jews was associated mainly with the name of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167). His scientific corpus deals with mathematics, astronomy, scientific instruments and tools, and the Jewish calendar; but especially with astrology. This volume is the first product of a larger enterprise-a scientific edition of all twelve Ibn Ezra's astrological treatises-and offers a critical Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Te'amim, the Book of Reasons, accompanied by an annotated translation and commentary. The two treatises presented here were designed by Ibn Ezra to offer "reasons", "explanations", or "meanings" of the raw astrological concepts formulated in the introduction to astrology that Ibn Ezra entitled Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning… Read More
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