A Key to Locked Doors

Festschrift for Gerrit Bos on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday

Fabian Käs, Jessica Kley, Felix Hedderich (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

698 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70586-9 (ISBN)

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In July 2023, Gerrit Bos (Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of Cologne) celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers dealing with various topics from the fields of Hebrew and Arabic studies.

Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics.

Fabian Käs (Ph.D., Munich 2008), Jessica Kley (M.A., Cologne 2007), and Felix Hedderich (M.A., Cologne 2010), are research fellows at the University of Cologne. Since many years, they have been assisting Gerrit Bos in editing and analysing medieval Hebrew and Arabic texts on medicine.

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Publications by Gerrit Bos

Contents of the Volume

Part1 Philosophy, Theology, and Religion

1 Eine muʿtazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem

“Hirngespinst” oder literarische Gestaltung?

Hans Daiber

2 Alfarabi on Divine Attributes

Catarina Belo

3 A Land Ripe for Conquest

An Amorite Parallel to the Biblical Story of the Spies

Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch

4 The Ambiguity of Jewishness

Reflections on a Basic Concept of Jewish Studies

Philipp Lenhard

5 Non-linear Paths of Transmission

The First Written Reactions to the Recorded Oral Teachings on the Kabbalistic Intentions of Prayer

Daniel Abrams

6 The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative Act

The Scribe, “Eternal Pen Pusher” or “Skilled Practitioner”?

Dan Levene

7 “Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward”

Prolegomenon to a Scriptural Conversation between the Qurʾān and the Book of Mormon

D.Morgan Davis

Part2 Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences

8 Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical Metaphors

Samuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen

9 Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and Medicine

Vivian Nutton

10 Fürs Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz!

Zur frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Überlieferung von De succedaneis

Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

11 Un terminus ante quem pour la rédaction de la pharmacopée célèbre de Sābūr ibn Sahl (m. 255/869)

Oliver Kahl

12 Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn Ǧumaiʿs Abhandlung über den Schwindel

Fabian Käs

13 Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black Seed

Remke Kruk

14 Galen in the Guide—and beyond

LennE. Goodman

15 Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian Talmud

Theodore Kwasman

16 Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the Yemen

Y.Tzvi Langermann

Part3 Occidental Reception

17 The Name of the Thief

An Episode in the Transmission of Arabic Letters to the West

Charles Burnett

18 A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture

“Magister Maynus” of Réalmont (1304)

Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller

19 Maimonides als Vorbild

Hebräische Kommentare zu AphorismusI:1

Carsten Schliwski

20 Epithymum for Melancholy

Two Prescriptions in a Treatise Attributed to Isaac Israeli

Lola Ferre

21 Aristotle’s Parts of Animals in Hebrew

Some Terminological Observations

Resianne Fontaine

22 Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological Potpourri

A New Witness to Late Byzantine Therapeutics and Its Expansion through Appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin Medical Traditions

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Part4 Romance Languages

23 Altsüdiberoromanisch in hebräischem Gewand

Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis mittelalterlicher jüdischer medizinisch-botanischer Glossare und Synonymenlisten und zu den romanischen Varietäten von Al-Andalus

Guido Mensching

24 “Duck Tales”

The Hidden Stories of Andalusi Romance Bird Names

Mailyn Lübke

25 Testi mediolatini sull’aqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano dell’ayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAO

Maria Sofia Corradini

26 Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain

Norman Roth

Index of Personal Names of Pre-modern Authors

Index of Geographical Names

Index of Titles of Pre-modern Books

Index of Biblical and Quranic References

Index of Topics and Terms

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 126
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch; Hebrew
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-70586-4 / 9004705864
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70586-9 / 9789004705869
Zustand	Neuware