Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur
Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9004352031

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The Sefer Almansur contains a pharmacopeia of about 250 medicinal ingredients with their Arabic names (in Hebrew characters), their Romance (Old Occitan) and occasionally Hebrew equivalents. The pharmacopeia, which describes the properties and therapeutical uses of simple drugs featured at the end of Book Three of the Sefer Almansur. This work was translated into Hebrew from the Arabic Kitāb al-Manṣūrī (written by al-Rāzī) by Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa, who worked in Marseille in the 13th century. Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink supply a critical edition of the Hebrew text, an English translation and an analysis of the Romance and Latin terminology in Hebrew transcription. The authors show the pharmaceutical terminological innovation of Hebrew and of the vernacular, and give us proof of the important role of medieval Jews in preserving and transferring medical knowledge.

Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition
Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition

Author: Shem Tov ben Isaak (of Tortosa)

Publisher: Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieva

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9789004352025

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The authors present a critical edition of the Hebrew pharmacopeia Sefer Almansur (13th c., written by Shem Tov ben Isaac in Marseille), its English translation and an analysis of the Romance (Old Occitan) medical terms, which are included in the Hebrew text.

Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology
Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology

Author: Reimund Leicht

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9004412999

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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.

From Formal Linguistic Theory to the Art of Historical Editions
From Formal Linguistic Theory to the Art of Historical Editions

Author: Natascha Pomino

Publisher: V&R Unipress

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3847015532

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Romance is a fertile ground for linguistic research. Instead of limiting their studies to one specialised area, some Romance scholars have managed to combine different aspects of the broad field of Romance linguistics in an impressive way. This volume is dedicated to the multifaceted research interests of Guido Mensching: Part 1 focusses on different aspects of the architecture of grammar and linguistic theory, covering Italian, Portuguese, French, Sardinian and Romance. The focus of Part 2 is on historical linguistics, discussing Old Occitan lexicography and Romance in Hebrew scripts. Part 3 is dedicated to aspects relating to plurilingualism, language contact and sociolinguistics. Part 4 explores research arguments that go beyond Romance philology but are nonetheless intertwined with it.

Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology
Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

Author: Guido Mensching

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 3110302276

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This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

A Key to Locked Doors
A Key to Locked Doors

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-08-29

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9004705880

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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.

The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar”
The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar”

Author: Michael R. McVaugh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 900440645X

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The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former translating the original Arabic into their shared Occitan vernacular, the latter translating that into Latin. They use manuscript evidence to argue that the text was produced in two stages, first a quite literal version, then a revision improved in style and in language adapted to contemporary European medicine. Such collaborative translations are well known, but the revelation of the inner workings of the translation process in this case is exceptional. A separate Hebrew translation by the philosopher (also edited here) gives independent evidence of the lost Arabic original.

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the 13th Century
Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the 13th Century

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9004382623

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This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especially those terms that do not feature in the current dictionaries at all, or insufficiently.

New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews
New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9004685065

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At the intersection of Jewish studies and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book approach the topic of the languages of Sephardic Jews from different perspectives, spanning chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on diverse sources – from medical glossaries to inquisition archives, from rabbinic responsa to recordings of today's speakers – the scholars collaborating on this project have endeavoured to reconstruct fragments of a complex and elusive linguistic reality, which over the centuries has been shaped by the historical experience of its speakers. An innovative collection of rigorously conducted synchronic and diachronic studies that contributes to expanding our knowledge and opening new perspectives on crucial issues, such as the effects of contact on the linguistic structures, the possibility of a norm for polycentric languages, the relationship between the lexicon of a language and the vitality of its speech community.

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages
Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9004534423

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In Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages, Volume 6 Gerrit Bos offers more terms not featuring in existing dictionaries as addition to his Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages.