Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms Volume 2
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations
Published on 12. December 2019
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-90-04-42552-1 (ISBN)
Description
Hippocrates' Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates' most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should know by heart. They were translated into Hebrew several times, but it was Maimonides' Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms that made the work influential in Jewish circles. For the composition of his commentary, Maimonides consulted the Aphorisms through the commentary by Galen, translated by ?unayn ibn Is?aq. This edition of Maimonides' Arabic commentary and its Hebrew translations, the first with an English translation based on the Arabic text, is part of a project undertaken by Gerrit Bos to critically edit Maimonides' medical works.
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Series
Edition
viii, 307 pp.
Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42552-1 (9789004425521)
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Book
01/2020
Brill
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Person
Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has widely published in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts.