Download or read book The Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart written by Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn Pakuda and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1973-09-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete English translation from the original Arabic of one of the most important works of Jewish philosophy and ethics, composed in the early 12th century.
Download or read book Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes written by Esperanza Alfonso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Jewish views towards Islam and Muslims in Al-Andalus during the early Middle Ages.
Download or read book Interiority and Law written by Omer Michaelis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Baḥya ibn Paquda's Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a revolutionary intervention in Jewish law, or halakha. Overturning perceptions of Baḥya as the shaper of an ethical-religious form of life that exceeds halakha, Michaelis offers a pioneering historical and conceptual analysis of the category of "inner commandments" developed by Baḥya. Interiority and Law reveals that Baḥya's main effort revolved around establishing a new legal formation—namely, the "duties of the hearts"—which would deal entirely with human interiority. Michaelis takes up the implications of Baḥya's radical innovation, examining his unique mystical model of proximity to God, which he based on an increasingly growing fulfillment of the inner commandments. With an integrative approach that puts Baḥya in dialogue with other medieval Muslim and Jewish religious thinkers, this work offers a fresh perspective on our understanding of the interconnectedness of the dynamic, neighboring religious traditions of Judaism and Islam. Contributing to conversations in the history of religion, Jewish studies, and medieval studies on interiority and mysticism, this book reveals Baḥya as a revolutionary and demanding thinker of Jewish law.
Download or read book Jewish Translation History written by Robert Singerman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into Latin or Hebrew. Other major sections extend the coverage to modern times, taking special note of the absorption of European literature into the Jewish cultural orbit via Hebrew, Yiddish, or Judezmo translations, for instance, or the translation and reception of Jewish literature written in Jewish languages into other languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, or Russian. This polyglot bibliography, the first of its kind, contains over 2,600 entries, is enhanced by a vast number of additional bibliographic notes leading to reviews and related resources, and is accompanied by both an author and a subject index.
Download or read book The Artless Jew written by Kalman P. Bland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic. He draws on this insight to consider modern ideas of Jewish art, revealing how they are inextricably linked to diverse notions about modern Jewish identity that are themselves entwined with arguments over Zionism, integration, and anti-Semitism. Through its use of the past to illuminate the present and its analysis of how the present informs our readings of the past, this book establishes a new assessment of Jewish aesthetic theory rooted in historical analysis. Authoritative and original in its identification of authentic Jewish traditions of painting, sculpture, and architecture, this volume will ripple the waters of several disciplines, including Jewish studies, art history, medieval and modern history, and philosophy.
Download or read book Studies in Middle Arabic and Its Judaeo Arabic Variety written by Joshua Blau and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers, in the main, deal with Medieval Judaeo-Arabic, the linguistic tool of Jewish culture in Arab lands, one of the apogees of Jewish culture in general. It reflects a variety of Middle Arabic, in which Classical Arabic, post-Classical Arabic, [ancient] Neo-Arabic and pseudo-correct features alternate. This ancient Neo-Arabic constitutes the missing link between Classical Arabic and the modern Arabic dialects. Some of the early Judaeo-Arabic documents are spelt in a hebraicized spelling, rather than in standard Judaeo-Arabic orthography. Prof. Joshua Blau, Emeritus, Max Schloessinger Professor of Arabic Languages and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is President of the Academy of Hebrew Language.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Judaica A Z written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Judaica Ba Blo written by Fred Skolnik and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Judaica A Z written by Cecil Roth and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Isaac ben Solomon Sahula and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wondrous fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain. Ibn Sahula wrote his fables in rhymed prose, here rendered into English as rhymed couplets. They comprise a series of satirical debates between a cynic and a moralist, put into the mouths of animals; the moralist always triumphs. The debates, which touch on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, amply reflect human foibles, political compromise, and court intrigue. They are suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore, a flavour reinforced by the profusion of biblical quotations reapplied. With parallel Hebrew and English texts, explanatory notes, indication of textual variants, and references for all the biblical and other allusions, this edition has much to offer to scholars in many are.
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology written by Reimund Leicht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains studies based on papers delivered at the international conference of the PESHAT in Context project entitled “Themes, Terminology, and Translation Procedures in Twelfth-Century Jewish Philosophy.” The central figure in this book is Judah Ibn Tibbon. He sired the Ibn Tibbon family of translators, which influenced philosophical and scientific Hebrew writing for centuries. More broadly, the study of this early phase of the Hebrew translation movement also reveals that the formation of a standardized Hebrew terminology was a long process that was never fully completed. Terminological shifts are frequent even within the Tibbonide family, to say nothing of the fascinating terminological diversity displayed by other authors and translators discussed in this book.
Download or read book The Book of Tahkemoni written by Judah Alharizi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crowning jewel of medieval Hebrew rhymed prose in vigorous translation vividly illuminates a lost Iberian world. With full scholarly annotation and literary analysis.
Download or read book Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart written by Bahya Ben Joseph ibn Pakuda and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The encyclopedia of religion written by [Anonymus AC01843392] and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo Arabic written by Joshua Blau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Happened in the Old South written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells thirty stories of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky—from early European exploration to the end of the Civil War. Readers will be introduced to well-known characters, little-known heroes, and events that changed history—from “How ‘Old Glory’ Got Its Name” in Tennessee and “The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone” in Kentucky to “The Invention of the Cotton Gin” in Georgia and “The Capture of Aaron Burr” in Mississippi.
