Abstract
Review of: Shlomo Sela, Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Introductions to Astrology. A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs, Brill, Leiden – Boston 2017 (Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval, 69; Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, 5), XIII + 822 pp., ISBN 9789004342279 (HBK), 9789004342286 (EBK).
Highlights
Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1089–c. 1161) was born to a Jewish family in Andalusia where he obtained the typical Jewish education of his time that included Arabic culture and science
During his stays in France, Italy, and England he wrote all of his Bible commentaries as well as all his contributions to sciences. To the latter field he contributed some thirty treatises that deal with mathematics, astronomy, the astrolabe and other scientific instruments, the Jewish calendar, and astrology. These scientific treatises were mainly written in Hebrew, sometimes Ibn Ezra might have written in Latin
Among them we find three introductions to astrology, two versions of the Sefer ha-Ṭeamim (« Book of Reasons »), in which the astrological reasons behind the concepts are explained, three different treatises on nativities, and eleven treatises on different aspects of astrology such as horoscopy, elections, interrogations, world astrology, and medical astrology
Summary
Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1089–c. 1161) was born to a Jewish family in Andalusia where he obtained the typical Jewish education of his time that included Arabic culture and science. To the latter field he contributed some thirty treatises that deal with mathematics, astronomy, the astrolabe and other scientific instruments, the Jewish calendar, and astrology. These scientific treatises were mainly written in Hebrew, sometimes Ibn Ezra might have written in Latin. Among them we find three introductions to astrology (two are included in the present volume), two versions of the Sefer ha-Ṭeamim (« Book of Reasons »), in which the astrological reasons behind the concepts are explained, three different treatises on nativities, and eleven treatises on different aspects of astrology such as horoscopy, elections, interrogations, world astrology, and medical astrology.
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