The Book of Reasons : a parallel Hebrew-English critical edition of the two versions of the text / Abraham Ibn Ezra ; edited, translated, and annotated by Shlomo Sela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164.

Contributor:

Sela, Shlomo.

Series:

Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; t. 35.

Etudes sur le judaisme medieval, 0169-815X ; t. 35

Standardized Title:

Sefer ha-ṭeʻamim. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish astrology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of Wisdom).

Contents:

pt. 1. First version of the Book of Reasons by Abraham Ibn Ezra

pt. 2. Notes to the first version of the Book of Reasons

pt. 3. Second version of the Book of Reasons by Abraham Ibn Ezra

pt. 4. Notes to the second version of the Book of Reasons

pt. 5. Appendixes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92646-9

9786611926465

90-474-2157-4

OCLC:

536052349

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004157644.i-400 DOI