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Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra was one of the outstanding and colorful scholars of medieval Jewry. He was a poet, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, grammarian physician and philosopher. However, his chief claim to fame rests on his commentary on the Bible, especially on the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses. Ibn Ezra's commentary constitutes a major contribution to Biblical exegesis. One cannot be considered a true student of the Bible without having studied it. Ibn Ezra's works influenced all major Bible commentators. This commentary on NUMBERS is now available in an English translation. ... Read more

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Chapters: Maimonides, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Aryeh Kaplan, Joseph Ben Ephraim Karo, Abraham Abulafia, Moses Ben Jacob Cordovero, Menahem Lonzano, Moses Gaster, Chaim Joseph David Azulai, Menasseh Ben Israel, Nehemiah Hayyun, Joseph Ben Abraham Gikatilla, Ben Ish Chai, Isaac Aboab I, Moses Hagiz, Abraham de Sola, David de Aaron de Sola, Yishayahu Yosef Pinto, Isaac Aboab Da Fonseca, Jacob Ben Aaron Sasportas, David Nieto, Yaakov Chaim Sofer, Yaakov Culi, Chaim Ibn Attar, Judah Alkalai, Shem Tob Gaguine, Solomon Almoli, Joseph Sitruk, Hayim Palaggi, Abdallah Somekh, Joseph Ibn Ezra, Israel Moses Hazan, Samuel Ben Jacob Ibn Jam, Isaac S.d. Sassoon, Chaim Pinto, Marc D. Angel, Yehuda Fatiyah, Elazar Ben Moshe Azikri, Hayim David Halevi, Isaac Uziel, Judah Ben Jacob Najar, Judah Rosanes, Baruch Gigi, Joseph Athias, Chalom Messas, David Messas, David Hassine, Solomon David Sassoon, Benjamin Artom, Mordecai Galante. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maimonides was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher, one of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. He is also known by the names Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or the acronym the Rambam (Hebrew: ; Hebrew acronym: "; Arabic: Ms ibn Maymn, short for Ab Imrn Ms bin Ubaidallh Maimn al-Qurub). He was born in Córdoba, Spain, On Passover Eve, in 1135, and died in Egypt on 20th Tevet, December 12, 1204. He worked as a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt. With the contemporary Muslim sage Averroes, he promoted and developed the philosophical tradition of Aristotle, which gave both men prominent and controversial influence in the West, where Aristotelian thought had been lost for centuries. Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas were notable Western readers of Maimonides. One of the c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19445 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Saadia Gaon, Moïse Maïmonide, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Emmanuel Levinas, Moshe Ben Nahman, Moses Mendelssohn, Haï Gaon, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Isaac Abravanel, Joseph Ibn Caspi, Philon D'alexandrie, Joseph Albo, Martin Buber, Isaac Israeli Ben Salomon, Adolphe Franck, Moshe Ibn Tibbon, Abraham Ben David de Posquières, David Ibn Merwan Al-Mukkamas, Salomon Ibn Gabirol, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Yeshayahou Leibowitz, Jacob Gordin, Mordecai Kaplan, Azaria Di Rossi, Bahya Ibn Paquda, Gersonide, Abraham Ibn Dawd Halevi, Nachman Krochmal, Juda Loew Ben Bezalel, Henri Levy, Franz Rosenzweig, André Neher, Moïse Narboni, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ovadia Ben Jacob Sforno, Moché Haïm Luzzatto, Hasdaï Crescas, Isaac Albalag, Hermann Cohen, Juda Halevi, Abraham Isaac Kook, Moïse Cordovero, Saadia Ibn Danan, Ephraim Al-Naqawa, Jacob Taubes, Arnold Mandel, Nathanael Caspi, Tzvi Hirsh Kalisher, Benjamin Gross, Moïse Lilienblum. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait :Saadia Gaon (hébreu רב סעדיה בן יוסף גאון סורא Rav Saadia ben Yosseph Gaon Soura, arabe سعيد إبن يوسف الفيّومي Sa`īd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi), dit le Rassag (רס״ג), est un rabbin du siècle (Égypte, 882 ou 892 - Babylonie, 942 EC). Sa vie est une suite de luttes et de batailles pour assurer la survie et la pérennité du judaïsme rabbinique babylonien face à l'assimilation dans la civilisation arabo-musulmane conquérante, aux luttes d'influence entre les académies de la terre d'Israël et de Babylone, à celles opposant l'exilarque (dirigeant des exilés juifs de Babylonie) aux scholarques etc. Il est, surtout, le premier opposant majeur aux Karaïtes, adeptes d'un judaïsme scripturaliste qui rejette la Torah orale des rabbins. Il répond à ces défis par une œuvre abondante et nov...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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The main focus of this volume is the study of Abraham Ibn Ezra's scientific thought within the historical and cultural context of his times (1089-1167). His scientific contribution may be understood as the very embodiment of "the rise of medieval Hebrew science", a process in which Jewish scholars gradually adopted the holy tongue as a vehicle to express secular and scientific ideas. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive picture of Ibn Ezra's scientific corpus. The second part studies his linguistic strategy. The third and fourth parts study Ibn Ezra's introductions to his scientific treatises, and the fifth part is devoted to studying four "encounters" with Claudius Ptolemy, the main scientific character featuring in Ibn Ezra's literary work. ... Read more

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This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor.

This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning. ... Read more

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The biblical commentaries of Rabbi Abraham Ion Ezra (1089/1092-1164/1167) have become indispensable to anyone desiring a full appreciation of the biblical text, and this noted scholar also wrote extensively on philology, philosophy. mathematics, and astrology. The six essays in this hook explore lbn Ezra's multi-faceted work and intellectual legacy. They illuminate his exegetical methodology; the role of astrology in his work; his philological insights into the Hebrew language; the possibility of his influenceon the great Jewish philosopher and jurist. Maimonides; the numerous supercommentaries called forth by his enigmatic commentary; and modern Jewish perspectives on him.

Contributors are Jay M. Harris, Simhah Kogut, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Nahum Sarna, Uriel Simon, and Isadore Twersky. Two of the essays are in Hebrew.

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This book represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment. It charts his unusual travels and discusses changes and contradictions in his hermeneutic approach, analysing his vision of the future for the Jewish people in the Christian north of Europe rather than in Muslim Spain. It also examines his influence on subsequent Jewish thought, as well as his place in the wider hermeneutic debate. The book contains a new translation of ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah, written in Lucca, northern Italy, together with a full commentary. It will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars, ranging from philosophers and theologians to linguists and students of hermeneutics. ... Read more

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The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.