Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21220-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 660 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1109 g

Reihe: Brill

This volume offers the first critical edition of the Hebrew text, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises by Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Book of Elections (3 versions); the Book of Interrogations (3 versions); and the Book of the Luminaries. This volume, then, covers the astrological doctrine of elections, which is concerned with finding the best time to begin a particular activity; the doctrine of interrogations, designed to allow astrologers to reply to questions related to daily life; and the astrological theory behind the doctrine of the critical days, when marked changes take place in the symptoms of a disease. These three systems of astrology were combined in a single volume because Ibn Ezra considers them to be closely interrelated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sela, Shlomo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Über Autor(innen)

Shlomo Sela is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. He has recently published: Abraham Ibn Ezra: The Book of Reasons, A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text (Brill, 2007), and Abraham Ibn Ezra: The Book of the World, A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text (Brill, 2010). With this volume he continues the publication of Ibn Ezra’s complete works on astrology.