Texts in transit in the medieval Mediterranean /
This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspectives. Rejecting the presumption that texts simply travel without changing, the contributors examine closely the nature of these writings, which are conce...
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The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The role of oral transmission for astronomy among Romaniot Jews / Robert G. Morrison
- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provencal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior
- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the revealer / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- Cryptography in the late medieval Middle East : from Mosul to Venice? / Leigh Chipman
- Remembering, knowing, imagining : approaches to the topic of memory in medieval Islamic culture / Leonardo Capezzone
- Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291, as evidence of multifaceted textual movement in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian N. Becker
- The wheat and the barley : feminine (in- )fertility in Eve and Adam narratives in Islam / Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
- Shiite underground literature between Iraq and Syria : The book of shadows and the history of the early Ghulat / Mushegh Asatryan
- Medieval Hebrew uroscopic texts : the reception of Greek uroscopic texts in the Hebrew book of remedies attributed to Asaf / Tamás Visi
- The transmission of Sephardic scientific works in Italy / Israel M. Sandman
- New medicine and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʻyye problematic in eighteenth-century Istanbul / B. Harun Küçük
- The role of oral transmission for astronomy among Romaniot Jews / Robert G. Morrison
- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provencal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior
- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the revealer / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- Cryptography in the late medieval Middle East : from Mosul to Venice? / Leigh Chipman
- Remembering, knowing, imagining : approaches to the topic of memory in medieval Islamic culture / Leonardo Capezzone
- Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291, as evidence of multifaceted textual movement in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian N. Becker
- The wheat and the barley : feminine (in- )fertility in Eve and Adam narratives in Islam / Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
- Shiite underground literature between Iraq and Syria : The book of shadows and the history of the early Ghulat / Mushegh Asatryan
- Medieval Hebrew uroscopic texts : the reception of Greek uroscopic texts in the Hebrew book of remedies attributed to Asaf / Tamás Visi
- The transmission of Sephardic scientific works in Italy / Israel M. Sandman
- New medicine and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʻyye problematic in eighteenth-century Istanbul / B. Harun Küçük
- The role of oral transmission for astronomy among Romaniot Jews / Robert Morrison
- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provençal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior
- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's Scroll of the Revealer / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- Cryptography in the late medieval Middle East : from Mosul to Venice? / Leigh Chipman
- Remembering, knowing, imagining : approaches to the topic of memory in medieval Islamic culture / Leonardo Capezzone
- Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291, as evidence of multifaceted textual movement in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian N. Becker
- The wheat and the barley : feminine (in-)fertility in Eve and Adam narratives in Islam / Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
- Shiite underground literature between Iraq and Syria : The Book of Shadows and the history of the early Ghulat / Mushegh Asatryan
- Medieval Hebrew uroscopic texts : the reception of Greek uroscopic texts in the Hebrew Book of Remedies attributed to Asaf / Tamás Visi
- The transmission of Sephardic scientific works in Italy / Israel M. Sandman
- Medical translations and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʻyye problematic in eighteenth-century Istanbul / B. Harun Küçük
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy Among Romaniot Jews
- Two. Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I Heard"
- Three. Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites
- Four. Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East
- Five. Remembering, Knowing, Imagining
- Six. Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multifaceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Seven. The Wheat and the Barley
- Eight. Shiite Underground Literature Between Iraq and Syria
- Nine. Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts
- Ten. The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy
- Eleven. New Medicine and the Ḥikmet- i Ṭabīʿiyye Problematic in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul
- Contributors
- Index of Manuscripts Cited
- Index