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Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introductions to Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of the J Hardcover - 2018

by Shlomo Sela


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  • Title Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introductions to Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of the J
  • Author Shlomo Sela
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 836
  • Volumes 1
  • Language HEB
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2018
  • Features Bilingual, Bibliography, Glossary
  • ISBN 9789004342279 / 9004342273
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish

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Shlomo Sela is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought 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. With this volume, he continues the publication of Abraham Ibn Ezra's complete works on astrology.
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Abraham Ibn Ezra's introductions to astrology : a Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of the Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings, Volume 5

by Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164 (author); Shlomo Sela (editor & translator)

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Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xiii, (1), 822pp. Indices and bibliography. Text in English and Hebrew with some Arabic. Green boards lettered in white, with a red spine band near top. A fine, as new copy. The present volume offers a critical edition of the Hebrew texts, accompanied by English translation and commentary of Reshit Ḥokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom) and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot (Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs) by Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089-ca. 1161). The first, the summa and by far the longest of his astrological works, the target of the most cross-references from the rest of that corpus and the most influential, enjoyed the widest circulation among Jews in the Middle Ages and after. The second, by contrast, is the most obscure. It is never referred to elsewhere by its author and is the only work for which Ibn Ezra's authorship must be substantiated. Reshit Ḥokhmah and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot were written in order to explain concepts common to the various… Read More
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