Overview
- Provides indispensible reference work for "The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages"
- Contains classic reference for the history of science and philosophy among the Jews
- Offers an update and translation of the greatest work of the Jewish scholarship of the 19th century
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy (ASJT, volume 16)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Arabic Literature
- Arabic literature of the Jews
- Cultural Transmission
- Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen
- Jewish Studies
- Jewish and Muslim polemical literature
- Judah Halevi
- Medieval Translations
- Moses Maimonides
- Scholastic Philosophpy and Science
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- medieval Hebrew belle–lettristic works
- medieval Hebrew philosophical work
- medieval Hebrew scientific works
- profane literature in medieval Hebrew
About this book
This book deals with medieval Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic, such as Moses Maimonides, Judah Halevi, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol, as well as the Hebrew translations and commentaries of Judaeo-Arabic philosophy. It brings up to date a part of Moritz Steinschneider’s monumental Die hebraeischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters), which was first published in 1893 and remains to this day the authoritative account of the transmission and development of Arabic and Latin, and, by way of those languages, Greek culture to medieval and renaissance Jews.
In the work presented here, Steinschneider’s bibliography has been updated, some of his scholarly judgments have been judiciously revised and an exhaustive listing of pertinent Hebrew manuscripts and their whereabouts has been provided. The volume opens with a long essay that describes the origin and genesis of Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen, and with Steinschneider’s prefaces to the French and German versions of his work.
This publication is the first in a projected series that translates, updates and, where necessary, revises parts of Steinschneider’s bio-bibliographical classic. Historians of medieval culture and philosophy, and also scholars of the transmission of classical culture to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, will find this volume indispensable.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters
Book Subtitle: Vol I. Preface. General Remarks. Jewish Philosophers
Editors: Charles H. Manekin, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt
Series Title: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7314-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7313-4Published: 30 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0223-0Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7314-1Published: 20 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2213-4077
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8772
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 255
Topics: History of Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Cultural Heritage