Patai The Jewish Alchemists

A History and Source Book
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6366-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 634 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions.

Originally published in 1994.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Patai, Raphael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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