A key to locked doors : festschrift for Gerrit Bos on the occasion of his 75th birthday / edited by Fabian Käs, Jessica Kley, Felix Hedderich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Käs, Fabian, editor.

Kley, Jessica, 1981- editor.

Hedderich, Felix, 1981- editor.

Bos, Gerrit, 1948- honoree.

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; 0169-8729 126.

Islamic philosophy, theology and science : texts and studies, 0169-8729 ; volume 126

Language:

Arabic

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Civilization.

Jews.

Islamic civilization.

Jews--Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Arab.

Bos, Gerrit, 1948-.

Bos, Gerrit.

Physical Description:

xl, 658 pages : color facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

Text in English, Arabic and Hebrew.

Summary:

"Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Eine mu'tazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem "Hirngespinst" oder literarische Gestaltung? / Hans Daiber

Alfarabi on divine attributes / Catarina Belo

A land ripe for conquest : an amorite parallel to the biblical story of the spies / Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch

The ambiguity of Jewishness : reflections on a basic concept of Jewish studies / Philipp Lenhard

Non-linear paths of transmission : the first written reactions to the recorded oral teachings on the Kabbalistic intentions of prayer / Daniel Abrams

The writing of a magical text as a performative act : the Scribe, "eternal pen pusher" or "skilled practitioner"? / Dan Levene

"Making towards Yemen, then eastward" : prolegomenon to a scriptural conversation between the Qurʼān and the Book of Mormon / D. Morgan Davis

Philo of Alexandria on physicians and medical metaphors / Samuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen

Loosening the old school tie : Nisibis and medicine / Vivian Nutton

Fürs Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz! : zur frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Überlieferung von de succedaneis / Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

Un terminus ante quem pour la rédaction de la pharmacopée célèbre de Sābūr ibn Sahl (m. 255/869) / Oliver Kahl

Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn Ǧumai's Abhandlung über den Schwindel / Fabian Käs

Herbal lore as a banner of Islamic piety : black seed / Remke Kruk

Galen in the guide-and beyond / Lenn E. Goodman

Notes on plant names in the Babylonian Talmud / Theodore Kwasman

Two texts from a Judaeo-Arabic alchemical anthology from the Yemen / Y. Tzvi Langermann

The name of the thief : an episode in the transmission of Arabic letters to the West / Charles Burnett

A Jew on the edge of Latin medical culture : "Magister Maynus" of Réalmont (1304) / Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller

Maimonides als Vorbild : Hebräische Kommentare zu Aphorismus i:1 / Carsten Schliwski

Epithymum for melancholy : two prescriptions in a treatise attributed to Isaac Israeli / Lola Ferre

Aristotle's parts of animals in Hebrew : some terminological observations / Resianne Fontaine

Examining a previously unknown pharmacological potpourri : a new witness to late Byzantine therapeutics and its expansion through appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin medical traditions / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Key to locked doors

ISBN:

9789004705869

9004705864

OCLC:

1452736635