Ruth Glasner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1150941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Glasner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasner |
| SIGNATURE | GLASNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An early stage in the evolution of Aristotle's physics
Two Notes on the Identification of Two Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on the Physics
Two Notes on the Identification of Two Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on the Physics Ruth Glasner (bio) In the following notes I wish to tell the stories of two anonymous Hebrew commentaries on the Physics, which were wrongly identified by Steinschneider. I maintain that both commentaries were written in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century and that Steinschneider's earlier dating obscured the picture of the development of Hebrew scho…
Averroes' physics
On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages
Ruth Glasner On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages It is well known that the Jews who lived in Muslim Spain studied the sciences from Arabic sources and wrote Arabic themselves. Starting in the twelfth century, many philosophical and scientific books were translated from Arabic into Hebrew; about the same time, Jews began writing book and commentaries in Hebrew.1 In theJewish communities of southern France, interest in "Greek wisdom" was rising f…
Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides)
Zeno of Elea's Argument from Bisection
The commentary on the Physics by Alexander of Aphrodisias is no longer extant; both the Greek original and the Arabic translation are lost.1 Averroes made extensive use of the latter when he wrote his long commentary on the Physics in about 1186. The Arabic original of this commentary, too, has not survived, but the thirteenth-century Latin translation by Michael Scotus and an anonymous fourteenth-century Hebrew one are extant. The Latin translat…
Ibn Rushd's Theory of Minima Naturalia
The essence of the theory of minima naturalia is the contention that a physical body is not infinitely divisible qua that specific body. A drop of water cannot be divided again and again and still maintain its “wateriness”. There are several statements in Aristotle's Physics which suggest such an interpretation, and the theory of minima naturalia is commonly considered to have originated in the thirteenth century as an interpretation of these sta…
Levi ben Gershom, Commentary on Song of Songs
Gersonides' Lost Commentary On the Metaphysics1
Gersonides' commentary on the Metaphysics is no longer extant and we know almost nothing about it. I shall argue that the commentary was on Averroes's long commentary and that it was not completed, perhaps not continued beyond book Γ. What made Gcrsonides, who commented so systematically on Aristotle, abandon his project, just when he was commenting on the book, that is considered by many to be the climax of Aristotle's work? The answer suggested…
אותות השמים (Otot ha-Shamayim)
Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void
The Argument It was commonly accepted in the middle ages that void within or outside the world is impossible. The paper presents a quite unusual conception of void, which is described in Yeda'aya ha-Penini's commentary on Ibn Rushd's epitome on Aristotle's Physics. According to this conception there is a thin layer of void between the water and the inner surface of the container. Ha-Penini describes two versions of this conception. According to o…
Gersonides on simple and composite movements
The Hebrew Version of De celo et mundo Attributed to Ibn Sīnā 1
The Hebrew text On the Heavens and the World , ascribed to Ibn Sīnā, is an interesting and intriguing composition. It dates from the 13th century and was quite influential. It is not a translation of any text of Ibn Sīnā known to us, but is related to the (pseudo-Avicennian) Latin De celo et mundo , which appears in the 1508 Venice edition of translations of Ibn Sīnā. The Latin and Hebrew texts differ widely and the relation between them is far f…
Gersonides's Theory of Natural Motion1
Gersonides rejects the basic tenets of the Aristotelian theory of natural motion, and offers an alternative original account. He does not introduce his theory systematically nor argues openly with Aristotle, but conveyes his ideas through a subtle and sophisticated work of exegesis. Developing ideas of Aristotle, Averroes and Themistius, he eventually ends up with a different theory. Gersonides presupposes neither that there are absolute natural …
"The Early Stages in the Evolution of Gersonides' "The Wars of the Lord
Levi Ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the Fourteenth Century
Gersonides's Theory of Natural Motion1
Gersonides rejects the basic tenets of the Aristotelian theory of natural motion, and offers an alternative original account. He does not introduce his theory systematically nor argues openly with Aristotle, but conveyes his ideas through a subtle and sophisticated work of exegesis. Developing ideas of Aristotle, Averroes and Themistius, he eventually ends up with a different theory. Gersonides presupposes neither that there are absolute natural …
"The Early Stages in the Evolution of Gersonides' "The Wars of the Lord
Levi Ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the Fourteenth Century
The Hebrew Version of De celo et mundo Attributed to Ibn Sīnā 1
The Hebrew text On the Heavens and the World , ascribed to Ibn Sīnā, is an interesting and intriguing composition. It dates from the 13th century and was quite influential. It is not a translation of any text of Ibn Sīnā known to us, but is related to the (pseudo-Avicennian) Latin De celo et mundo , which appears in the 1508 Venice edition of translations of Ibn Sīnā. The Latin and Hebrew texts differ widely and the relation between them is far f…
Gersonides's Theory of Natural Motion1
Gersonides rejects the basic tenets of the Aristotelian theory of natural motion, and offers an alternative original account. He does not introduce his theory systematically nor argues openly with Aristotle, but conveyes his ideas through a subtle and sophisticated work of exegesis. Developing ideas of Aristotle, Averroes and Themistius, he eventually ends up with a different theory. Gersonides presupposes neither that there are absolute natural …
"The Early Stages in the Evolution of Gersonides' "The Wars of the Lord
Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void
The Argument It was commonly accepted in the middle ages that void within or outside the world is impossible. The paper presents a quite unusual conception of void, which is described in Yeda'aya ha-Penini's commentary on Ibn Rushd's epitome on Aristotle's Physics. According to this conception there is a thin layer of void between the water and the inner surface of the container. Ha-Penini describes two versions of this conception. According to o…
Gersonides on simple and composite movements
Gersonides' Lost Commentary On the Metaphysics1
Gersonides' commentary on the Metaphysics is no longer extant and we know almost nothing about it. I shall argue that the commentary was on Averroes's long commentary and that it was not completed, perhaps not continued beyond book Γ. What made Gcrsonides, who commented so systematically on Aristotle, abandon his project, just when he was commenting on the book, that is considered by many to be the climax of Aristotle's work? The answer suggested…
אותות השמים (Otot ha-Shamayim)
Levi ben Gershom, Commentary on Song of Songs
Zeno of Elea's Argument from Bisection
The commentary on the Physics by Alexander of Aphrodisias is no longer extant; both the Greek original and the Arabic translation are lost.1 Averroes made extensive use of the latter when he wrote his long commentary on the Physics in about 1186. The Arabic original of this commentary, too, has not survived, but the thirteenth-century Latin translation by Michael Scotus and an anonymous fourteenth-century Hebrew one are extant. The Latin translat…
Ibn Rushd's Theory of Minima Naturalia
The essence of the theory of minima naturalia is the contention that a physical body is not infinitely divisible qua that specific body. A drop of water cannot be divided again and again and still maintain its “wateriness”. There are several statements in Aristotle's Physics which suggest such an interpretation, and the theory of minima naturalia is commonly considered to have originated in the thirteenth century as an interpretation of these sta…
On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages
Ruth Glasner On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages It is well known that the Jews who lived in Muslim Spain studied the sciences from Arabic sources and wrote Arabic themselves. Starting in the twelfth century, many philosophical and scientific books were translated from Arabic into Hebrew; about the same time, Jews began writing book and commentaries in Hebrew.1 In theJewish communities of southern France, interest in "Greek wisdom" was rising f…
Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides)
Two Notes on the Identification of Two Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on the Physics
Two Notes on the Identification of Two Anonymous Hebrew Commentaries on the Physics Ruth Glasner (bio) In the following notes I wish to tell the stories of two anonymous Hebrew commentaries on the Physics, which were wrongly identified by Steinschneider. I maintain that both commentaries were written in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century and that Steinschneider's earlier dating obscured the picture of the development of Hebrew scho…
Averroes' physics
An early stage in the evolution of Aristotle's physics
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