Maimonides, On the Regimen of Health
Maimonides, On the Regimen of Health

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9004394192

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Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. The treatise must have enjoyed great popularity in Jewish circles, as it was translated three times into Hebrew as far as we know; by Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon in the year 1244, by an anonymous translator, and by Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben She’altiel Ḥen who was active as a translator in Rome between 1277 and 1291. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, the medieval Hebrew translations and the Latin translations, the latter edited by Michael McVaugh.

Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms)
Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms)

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9004398805

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The present consilium, commonly known as De causis accidentium, after the Latin translation by John de Capua, was, like the earlier consilium On the Regimen of Health, composed by Maimonides at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son. As a result of not adopting the lifestyle and dietary recommendations in On the Regimen of Health, al-Afḍal may have continued to suffer from a number of afflictions, amongst them hemorrhoids, depression, constipation, and, possibly, a heart condition. The consilium was written after 1200, the year in which al-Afḍal was deposed and banished from Egypt permanently, but probably not long before 1204, the year in which Maimonides died.

Treatise on Asthma
Treatise on Asthma

Author: Moses 1135-1204 Maimonides

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781014305862

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Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati
Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati

Author: Gerrit Bos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004428178

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The original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the book series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati, who was active as a translator of scientific texts in Rome in the late thirteenth century, where his colleague Zeraḥyah Ḥen had completed a translation of the same Maimonidean text in 1277, only a few years earlier. Nathan aimed to provide the general reader with a translation that was easier to understand than Zeraḥyah's translation. The present critical edition of Nathan’s translation is primarily based on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1174, and not on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1173, used by Suessmann Muntner for his edition in 1959, as this copy suffers from many mistakes and corruptions.

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism
Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism

Author: Jeremy P. Brown

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004460942

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Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.