Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic

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The Idea of Stoicheia Through the Medieval Mediterranean

Juan Acevedo(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im Juli 2020

XXVI, 325 Seiten

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Cover
Title
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes to the Reader
A. Transliterations
I. Hebrew Transliteration
II. Arabic Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
A. The Concept
B. Overview
C. Survey of Scholarship
D. Methodology Matters
I Defining the Concept
Chapter 1: Notes on Early Alphabetic Cosmology
A. Starting from Aristotle's 'Lexicon'
I. First Glimmerings
1. Etymology
2. The Definition
3. Atoms and Letters
II. Platonic Corpus
III. The Constellations
IV. Latin Correspondences
B. Greek Grammarians
I. The Opening Anacoluthon
II. Simplicity and Pedagogy
III. The Semitic Origin
1. Naturegiven or Created
IV. More Etymologies
1. Number and Order
2. Walls and Ramparts
3. What about ???µµata?
V. Attributes of the st???e???
VI. The Four Cosmic Elements
1. Why Twenty-Four? More Cosmic Correspondences
2. The Moon and the Stars
3. The Planets
4. Astrological Correspondences
5. Microcosmic Correspondences
VII. Graphical Layout
VIII. Sanchuniathon and the Snakes
C. Latin Grammarians
D. Conclusion
Chapter 2: On the Tracks of Arithmetical Cosmology
A. Number and Letter
I. Isopsephism, Onomatomancy and Gematria
1. Choeroboscus on the Names of Numbers
B. Reckoning and Science of Numbers
C. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism
1. Lore & Science and Further Developments
2. Imitation or Participation
3. On Creation and Order
4. The Pythagorean Logos
5. The Fundamental Decad
I. Philolaos
1. Fragments of Philolaus
II. 'Pythagorean' Milestones
1. Nicomachus and his Introduction
III. Nicomachus' Introduction Tables
D. Conclusion
II Alphanumeric Cosmology in the Abrahamic Scriptures
Chapter 3: Jewish Sources and Exegesis
A. Tanakh and Translations
I. Genesis - Creation by Speech
1. Psalm 33:6
II. Exodus - Bezalel
III. Counting the Glory
IV. The Potter of Light
V. Acrostics
VI. Summary
B. Philo
I. On the Making of the World
1. Archetype and Noetic Creation
2. The Model is ?????
3. Numbers: the Tetrad and the Decad
II. Chapter Summary: Philo in Perspective
Chapter 4: Christian Sources and Exegesis
A. Letters-Numerals of the Christic Word-Number
I. Mysteria litterarum: Textual History
1. Mysteria litterarum - the text
2. 22 or 24 Letters
II. Apocryphal Gospels
III. A Spiritual ABC in Monastic Literature
IV. Measure, Number, Weight, and Augustine
Chapter 5: Hermetica, Magic and Gnostic Sources
I. Who is Hermes?
II. Thoth and the Letters in Philebus
III. The Creation Elements in the Hermetica
IV. Magic Phonemes
V. Magical Papyri
VI. The Twenty-Four Alphabetic Names of Gods
A. Gnostic Writings
I. Evangelium Veritatis
II. Marsanes
III. Marcus the Valentinian
B. Conclusion
Chapter 6: Alphanumeric Cosmology in Islamic Scripture and Exegesis
A. Introduction
I. The Linguistic-Logical Aspect
B. Starting Point and Influences
I. The Arabic Alphabet Order
1. The Arabic Letters as Numerals
C. The Development of the Science of Letters
I. ?Ali: The Common Source
II. Letters in the ?adith Literature
III. The Two Branches
IV. Some Key Texts
1. Jawami? alkalim
2. 'A limit and a summit'
3. 'Beyond utterance'
D. Back to Basics: Philosophy & Physics
I. The Metaphysics
II. Jabir and 'The Element'
III. The 'Element' of the Foundation
IV. The Balance of the Letters
III World Construction: Systems of Cosmic Design
Chapter 7: Sefer Yetsirah: The Bright Jewel of Alphanumeric Cosmopoiesis
A. Selections from the Text
I. The Thirty-Two Wondrous Paths of Wisdom
II. The Three Modes of Inscribing
III. The Absolute Numerations - Sefirot
IV. The Twenty-Two Elemental Letters
B. The Title: 'Creation' or 'Formation'?
C. Authorship and Conclusion
Chapter 8: Alphabetic Consecration & Metaphysical Foundation
A. The Abecedarium in Church Dedication
I. The Roman Gromatici
II. Christening the Land: mensuratio/?e?da?s?a
1. Rabanus Maurus
B. The Celtic Connections
I. Eriugena
Ramon Llull
C. Psellos: Letters and Matter
I. Aquinas and the Second 'Signified' Matter
D. Dante and Hildegard
Chapter 9: Islamic Systematisation and the Sublime Letters That We Were
A. Abu ?atim's Letter Cosmogony
B. A Pure Brotherhood
I. How Pythagorean are the Ikhwan?
II. Magic Squares in the Epistles
III. Music: Prosody: Grammar
IV. 'Letters' in the Rasa'il
V. Risala al-Jami ?a - The Comprehensive Epistle
C. A 'Sufi' Interim
D. Al-Buni and The Sun of Divine Sciences
I. The Letter-Elements in al-Buni
II. The First Paragraph
1. The Basics of Letter Cosmology
2. Letter-Number Relation
3. Joining the Letters
III. 'Magic' Squares in the Light of Alphanumeric Cosmology
E. Ibn ?Arabi
I. The Place of the Letters
II. Letters and Numbers
III. The Three Modes
IV. The Living Letters
F. Conclusion to Part III
Conclusion
A. Conceptual Conclusion: Echoes and Ramifications
I. Art, Artistry and the Arts
II. The Universe as Book
III. Physics and Modern Physics
IV. Linguistics, Psychology and Cosmology
V. Metaphysics and Theology
B. Historical Conclusion: The Alphanumeric End
Appendix A: Latin Grammarians
Bibliography
Primary Sources
General Sources
Index

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