Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

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Edited by Gad Freudenthal

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9780511976575
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976575

Subjects:: Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies

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Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined Maimonides in accepting the rationalist philosophical-scientific tradition and appropriated extensive bodies of scientific knowledge in various disciplines: astronomy, astrology, mathematics, logic, physics, meteorology, biology, psychology, science of language and medicine. The appropriated texts – in the original or in Hebrew translation – were the starting points for Jews' own contributions to medieval science and also informed other literary genres: religious-philosophical works, biblical commentaries and even Halakhic (legal) discussions. This volume's essays will provide readers with background knowledge of medieval scientific thought necessary to properly understand canonical Jewish scientific texts. Its breadth reflects the number and diversity of Jewish cultures in the Middle Ages and the necessity of considering the fortunes of science in each within its specific context.

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Frontmatter
pp i-v

Contents
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-x

Preface and Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
pp 1-10

Part I - The Greek-Arabic Scientific Tradition and Its Appropriation, Adaptation, and Development in Medieval Jewish Cultures, East and West
pp 11-12

1 - The Assimilation of Greco-Arabic Learning by Medieval Jewish Cultures
pp 13-16

2 - Medieval Hebrew Translations of Philosophical and Scientific Texts
pp 17-73

3 - Arabic and Latin Cultures as Resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement
pp 74-105

4 - The Production of Hebrew Scientific Books According to Dated Medieval Manuscripts
pp 106-110

Part II - Individual Sciences as Studied and Practiced by Medieval Jews
pp 111-112

5 - Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture
pp 113-135

6 - Astronomy among Jews in the Middle Ages
pp 136-146

7 - Interactions between Jewish and Christian Astronomers in the Iberian Peninsula
pp 147-154

8 - The Hebrew Mathematics Culture (Twelfth–Sixteenth Centuries)
pp 155-171

9 - Mathematical and Physical Optics in Medieval Jewish Scientific Thought
pp 172-181

10 - The Evolution of the Genre of the Philosophical-Scientific Commentary
pp 182-206

11 - Latin Scholastic Influences on Late Medieval Hebrew Physics
pp 207-216

12 - Meteorology and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew Texts
pp 217-229

13 - The Mental Faculties and the Psychology of Sleep and Dreams
pp 230-254

14 - Toward a History of Hebrew Astrological Literature
pp 255-291

15 - Astrology in Medieval Jewish Thought (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)
pp 292-300

16 - Astral Magic and Specific Properties (Segullot) in Medieval Jewish Thought
pp 301-319

17 - Medicine among Medieval Jews
pp 320-342

18 - Alchemy in Medieval Jewish Cultures
pp 343-358

19 - The Science of Language among Medieval Jews
pp 359-424

Part III - Scientific Knowledge in Context
pp 425-426

20 - Medieval Karaism and Science
pp 427-437

21 - Science in the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Cultural Orbit
pp 438-453

22 - Philosophy and Science in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Bible
pp 454-475

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