Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introductions to Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of the J Tapa dura - 2018

Brill, 2017. HB. like new. 9789004342279, 978-90-04-34227-9, Sela, Shlomo, Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introductions to Astrology,

Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xiii, (1), 822pp. Indices and bibliography. Text in English and Hebrew with some Arabic. Green boards lettered in white, with a red spine band near top. A fine, as new copy. The present volume offers a critical edition of the Hebrew texts, accompanied by English translation and commentary of Reshit Ḥokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom) and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot (Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs) by Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089-ca. 1161). The first, the summa and by far the longest of his astrological works, the target of the most cross-references from the rest of that corpus and the most influential, enjoyed the widest circulation among Jews in the Middle Ages and after. The second, by contrast, is the most obscure. It is never referred to elsewhere by its author and is the only work for which Ibn Ezra's authorship must be substantiated. Reshit Ḥokhmah and Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot were written in order to explain concepts common to the various… Leer más