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Pt. 1 Prelude
Ch. 1 Introduction 3
Ch. 2 Biblical Figures as Alchemists 18
Ch. 3 Alchemy in Bible and Talmud? 41
Pt. 2 The Hellenistic Age
Ch. 4 Jews in Hellenistic Alchemy 50
Ch. 5 Maria the Jewess 60
Ch. 6 Zosimus on Maria the Jewess 81
Pt. 3 The Early Arab World
Ch. 7 Abufalah's Alchemy 98
Ch. 8 A Hebrew Version of the Book of Alums and Salts 119
Ch. 9 Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid 125
Pt. 4 The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Ch. 10 Artephius 141
Ch. 11 The Great Jewish Philosophers 144
Ch. 12 Kabbalah and Alchemy: A Reconsideration 152
Pt. 5 The Fourteenth Century
Ch. 13 Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist 175
Ch. 14 The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew 204
Ch. 15 Flamel's Jewish Masters 218
Ch. 16 Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists 234
Ch. 17 Abraham Eleazar 238
Ch. 18 Themo Judaei 258
Pt. 6 The Fifteenth Century
Ch. 19 Simeon ben Semah Duran 264
Ch. 20 Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master 268
Ch. 21 Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica 271
Ch. 22 Isaac Hollandus and His Son John Isaac 289
Ch. 23 Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo 293
Ch. 24 Pseudo-Maimonides 300
Ch. 25 Three Kuzari Commentators 314
Pt. 7 The Sixteenth Century
Ch. 26 Esh Msaref: A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise 322
Ch. 27 Taitazak and Provencali 336
Ch. 28 Hayyim Vital, Alchemist 340
Ch. 29 An Alchemical Miscellany 365
Ch. 30 Labi, Hamawi, and Portaleone 376
Ch. 31 The Manchester (John Rylands) Manuscript 381
Pt. 8 The Seventeenth Century
Ch. 32 Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah 399
Ch. 33 Four Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts 407
Ch. 34 Benjamin Mussafia 437
Ch. 35 Benjamin Jesse 447
Pt. 9 The Eighteenth Century
Ch. 36 Hayyim Shmuel Falck 455
Ch. 37 The Comte de Saint-Germain 463
Ch. 38 Jacob Emden; de Bar Ilan Manuscript 480
Pt. 10 The Nineteenth Century
Ch. 39 An Alchemical Manuscript from Jerba 492
Ch. 40 Mordecai Abi Serour 514
Conclusion: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy 517
Appendix: An Alchemical Vocabulary from Jerba 525
Notes 543
Index 589
