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Table of contents (22 papers)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Medieval Latin Encyclopedias
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The Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy in the Medieval Islamic World
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Early Hebrew Encyclopedias
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Structure and Sources of the Major Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Encyclopedias
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Topics in the Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Encyclopedias
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Keywords
About this book
The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias.
Reviews
From the reviews:
`...the present volume...contribute[s] greatly to our knowledge of a special genre of medieval Hebrew literature. The authors themselves demonstrate almost encyclopedic knowledge of their subjects, and they write with authoritative voices. The editor is to be commended for his judicious choice of experts and his distribution of topics for them to discuss. The present book is a pioneering study and major contribution to the scholarly discourse concerning the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias, and it deserves wide distribution.'
The Jewish Quarterly Review, 2003:3-4
"The volume offers a comprehensive and sustained examination of a particularly literary genre – the encyclopedia of science and philosophy – as developed in medieval Hebrew literature. It contains articles by some twenty authors, but an obvious preparatory and editorial effort has turned them into a joint work. True to the requirements of its topic, this volume is duly provided with … an index of books, and indices of names (classical, medieval, and modern) and of contemporary authors." (Sarah Stroumsa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123 (2), 2003)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference
Editors: Steven Harvey
Series Title: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9389-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6242-5Published: 31 March 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5428-9Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9389-2Published: 29 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2213-4077
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8772
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 549
Topics: Philosophy, general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, History of Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, History, general