Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Volume 2

A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2019 | viii, 307 pp.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42552-1 (ISBN)

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The new critical edition of Maimonides’ Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms by Gerrit Bos is the first with an English translation based on the Arabic text. It also contains three medieval Hebrew translations.

Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should know by heart. They were translated into Hebrew several times, but it was Maimonides’ Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms that made the work influential in Jewish circles. For the composition of his commentary, Maimonides consulted the Aphorisms through the commentary by Galen, translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. This edition of Maimonides’ Arabic commentary and its Hebrew translations, the first with an English translation based on the Arabic text, is part of a project undertaken by Gerrit Bos to critically edit Maimonides’ medical works.

Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has widely published in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides ; 14.2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch; Hebrew
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	90-04-42552-7 / 9004425527
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42552-1 / 9789004425521
Zustand	Neuware