Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology
Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 285, (1)pp. Indices (including one in Hebrew and Aramaic) and a 23 page bibliography. Text in English with some Hebrew. Green buckram with purple red and green spine, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy.
This volume contains studies based on papers delivered at the international conference of the PESHAT in Context project entitled “Themes, Terminology, and Translation Procedures in Twelfth-Century Jewish Philosophy.” The central figure in this book is Judah Ibn Tibbon. He sired the Ibn Tibbon family of translators, which influenced philosophical and scientific Hebrew writing for centuries. More broadly, the study of this early phase of the Hebrew translation movement also reveals that the formation of a standardized Hebrew terminology was a long process that was never fully completed. Terminological shifts are frequent even within the Tibbonide family, to say nothing of the fascinating terminological diversity displayed by other authors and translators discussed in this book. (Publisher)
Contents: Ibn Tibbon's secrets: Samuel Ibn Tibbon's use of "secrets of Torah" and "secrets of faith" / Daniel Davies -- The roots שמר and שגח in the works of Samuel Ibn Tibbon: a terminological shift / Michael Engel -- "Tibbonide terminology" and Hebrew meteorological texts / Resianne Fontaine -- "For the earth shall be filled with deʿah": terminological ambiguity and the connection between knowledge and action in Maimonides's Commentary on the Mishnah and Mishneh Torah / Yehuda Halper -- Judah Ibn Tibbon: the cultural and intellectual profile of the "father of the Hebrew translation movement" / Reimund Leicht -- Mofet : from miracle to scientific proof / David Lemler -- The term mitpalsef in Jewish philosophy and its particular use in Jewish Averroism / Giovanni Licata -- Arabic-into-Hebrew translation strategies and procedures in the Hebrew manuscript tradition of Themistius's paraphrase of Aristotle's Metaphysics XII / Yoav Meyrav -- The transfer of some Sufi terms into a Jewish environment - Baḥya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the hearts and its translation by Judah Ibn Tibbon / Joost van der Lijn -- Remarks on an ambiguous geometric term in Saadia Gaon's Book of beliefs and opinions: šakl ṣanawbari/ṣūrah iṣṭrūbōlit / Gadi Charles Weber. (OCLC)
Volume 57, of the Brill series, "Studies in Jewish History and Culture" (SJHC). This is also Volume 1 of the Brill series, "Officina Philosophica Hebraica." Fine. Item #52250
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