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Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel’s “I Heard”
A Case Study in Byzantine Jews’ Reception of Spanish-Provençal Jewish Philosophical- Scientific Culture
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
- One. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews 10
- Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel’s “I Heard” 29
- Three. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites 47
- Four. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East 67
- Five. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining 85
- Six. Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean 101
- Seven. The Wheat and the Barley 116
- Eight. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria 128
- Nine. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts 162
- Ten. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy 198
- Eleven. New Medicine and the Ḥikmet- i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul 222
- Contributors 243
- Index of Manuscripts Cited 245
- Index 247
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
- One. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews 10
- Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel’s “I Heard” 29
- Three. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites 47
- Four. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East 67
- Five. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining 85
- Six. Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean 101
- Seven. The Wheat and the Barley 116
- Eight. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria 128
- Nine. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts 162
- Ten. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy 198
- Eleven. New Medicine and the Ḥikmet- i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul 222
- Contributors 243
- Index of Manuscripts Cited 245
- Index 247
