A Key to Locked Doors
Festschrift for Gerrit Bos on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday
Published on 29. August 2024
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Hardback
698 pages
978-90-04-70586-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
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1420 gr
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978-90-04-70586-9 (9789004705869)
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Fabian Kaes (Ph.D., Munich 2008), Jessica Kley (M.A., Cologne 2007), and Felix Hedderich (M.A., Cologne 2010), are research fellows at the University of Cologne. Since many years, they have been assisting Gerrit Bos in editing and analysing medieval Hebrew and Arabic texts on medicine.
Content
Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Publications by Gerrit Bos
Contents of the Volume
Part1 Philosophy, Theology, and Religion
1 Eine mu?tazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem
"Hirngespinst" oder literarische Gestaltung?
?Hans Daiber
2 Alfarabi on Divine Attributes
?Catarina Belo
3 A Land Ripe for Conquest
An Amorite Parallel to the Biblical Story of the Spies
?Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch
4 The Ambiguity of Jewishness
Reflections on a Basic Concept of Jewish Studies
?Philipp Lenhard
5 Non-linear Paths of Transmission
The First Written Reactions to the Recorded Oral Teachings on the Kabbalistic Intentions of Prayer
?Daniel Abrams
6 The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative Act
The Scribe, "Eternal Pen Pusher" or "Skilled Practitioner"?
?Dan Levene
7 "Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward"
Prolegomenon to a Scriptural Conversation between the Qur?an and the Book of Mormon
?D.Morgan Davis
Part2 Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences
8 Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical Metaphors
?Samuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen
9 Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and Medicine
?Vivian Nutton
10 Fuers Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz!
Zur fruehmittelalterlichen lateinischen UEberlieferung von De succedaneis
?Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
11 Un terminus ante quem pour la redaction de la pharmacopee celebre de Sabur ibn Sahl (m. 255/869)
?Oliver Kahl
12 Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn ?umai?s Abhandlung ueber den Schwindel
?Fabian Kaes
13 Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black Seed
?Remke Kruk
14 Galen in the Guide-and beyond
?LennE. Goodman
15 Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian Talmud
?Theodore Kwasman
16 Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the Yemen
?Y.Tzvi Langermann
Part3 Occidental Reception
17 The Name of the Thief
An Episode in the Transmission of Arabic Letters to the West
?Charles Burnett
18 A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture
"Magister Maynus" of Realmont (1304)
?Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller
19 Maimonides als Vorbild
Hebraeische Kommentare zu AphorismusI:1
?Carsten Schliwski
20 Epithymum for Melancholy
Two Prescriptions in a Treatise Attributed to Isaac Israeli
?Lola Ferre
21 Aristotle's Parts of Animals in Hebrew
Some Terminological Observations
?Resianne Fontaine
22 Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological Potpourri
A New Witness to Late Byzantine Therapeutics and Its Expansion through Appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin Medical Traditions
?Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Part4 Romance Languages
23 Altsuediberoromanisch in hebraeischem Gewand
Ein Beitrag zum Verstaendnis mittelalterlicher juedischer medizinisch-botanischer Glossare und Synonymenlisten und zu den romanischen Varietaeten von Al-Andalus
?Guido Mensching
24 "Duck Tales"
The Hidden Stories of Andalusi Romance Bird Names
?Mailyn Luebke
25 Testi mediolatini sull'aqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano dell'ayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAO
?Maria Sofia Corradini
26 Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain
?Norman Roth
Index of Personal Names of Pre-modern Authors
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Titles of Pre-modern Books
Index of Biblical and Quranic References
Index of Topics and Terms
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Publications by Gerrit Bos
Contents of the Volume
Part1 Philosophy, Theology, and Religion
1 Eine mu?tazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem
"Hirngespinst" oder literarische Gestaltung?
?Hans Daiber
2 Alfarabi on Divine Attributes
?Catarina Belo
3 A Land Ripe for Conquest
An Amorite Parallel to the Biblical Story of the Spies
?Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch
4 The Ambiguity of Jewishness
Reflections on a Basic Concept of Jewish Studies
?Philipp Lenhard
5 Non-linear Paths of Transmission
The First Written Reactions to the Recorded Oral Teachings on the Kabbalistic Intentions of Prayer
?Daniel Abrams
6 The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative Act
The Scribe, "Eternal Pen Pusher" or "Skilled Practitioner"?
?Dan Levene
7 "Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward"
Prolegomenon to a Scriptural Conversation between the Qur?an and the Book of Mormon
?D.Morgan Davis
Part2 Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences
8 Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical Metaphors
?Samuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen
9 Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and Medicine
?Vivian Nutton
10 Fuers Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz!
Zur fruehmittelalterlichen lateinischen UEberlieferung von De succedaneis
?Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
11 Un terminus ante quem pour la redaction de la pharmacopee celebre de Sabur ibn Sahl (m. 255/869)
?Oliver Kahl
12 Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn ?umai?s Abhandlung ueber den Schwindel
?Fabian Kaes
13 Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black Seed
?Remke Kruk
14 Galen in the Guide-and beyond
?LennE. Goodman
15 Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian Talmud
?Theodore Kwasman
16 Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the Yemen
?Y.Tzvi Langermann
Part3 Occidental Reception
17 The Name of the Thief
An Episode in the Transmission of Arabic Letters to the West
?Charles Burnett
18 A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture
"Magister Maynus" of Realmont (1304)
?Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller
19 Maimonides als Vorbild
Hebraeische Kommentare zu AphorismusI:1
?Carsten Schliwski
20 Epithymum for Melancholy
Two Prescriptions in a Treatise Attributed to Isaac Israeli
?Lola Ferre
21 Aristotle's Parts of Animals in Hebrew
Some Terminological Observations
?Resianne Fontaine
22 Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological Potpourri
A New Witness to Late Byzantine Therapeutics and Its Expansion through Appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin Medical Traditions
?Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Part4 Romance Languages
23 Altsuediberoromanisch in hebraeischem Gewand
Ein Beitrag zum Verstaendnis mittelalterlicher juedischer medizinisch-botanischer Glossare und Synonymenlisten und zu den romanischen Varietaeten von Al-Andalus
?Guido Mensching
24 "Duck Tales"
The Hidden Stories of Andalusi Romance Bird Names
?Mailyn Luebke
25 Testi mediolatini sull'aqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano dell'ayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAO
?Maria Sofia Corradini
26 Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain
?Norman Roth
Index of Personal Names of Pre-modern Authors
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Titles of Pre-modern Books
Index of Biblical and Quranic References
Index of Topics and Terms