Shlomo Sela
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shlomo Sela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shlomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Sela |
| SIGNATURE | SELA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4216-1729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Impact of Hagin le Juif's French Translations on Subsequent Latin Translations of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings
From the Middle Ages until the present, the development of astrology among Jews has been associated with Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089–ca. 1161). He created the first comprehensive set of Hebrew astrological textbooks, which addressed the main systems of Arabic astrology and provided Hebrew readers with access to the subject. Some of his works became known to Christian scholars during his years in the Latin West and shortly after his death. However,…
Abraham Ibn Ezra as the Translator of Astrological and Astronomical Texts from Arabic into Hebrew
Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089–ca. 1161) was born in Muslim Spain, but his extensive scientific corpus, dealing mainly with astrology and astronomy, was composed in Latin Europe and written almost exclusively in Hebrew. Recent work on Reshit Ḥokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom), an introduction to astrology that is considered to be the zenith of Ibn Ezra’s astrological work, revealed that at least one-fourth of this text consists of translations or close pa…
Gersonides' Astrology and Abraham Ibn Ezra
This paper investigates Gersonides' use of the astrology prevalent in his day, namely, horoscopic astrology. It shows that for Gersonides, Abraham Ibn Ezra was a central source and point of reference on which he relied wherever he drew on astrology. The paper is divided into three parts. The first examines the extent of Gersonides' acquaintance with astrological literature, as reflected in his private library and writings. The second part looks a…
Biblical stars in medieval Jewish thought (tenth-twelfth centuries)
The twelfth century witnessed a new Jewish interest in the fixed stars, which finds its major expression in the first-ever Hebrew lists of constellations and fixed stars. These are in fact translations into Hebrew of Arabic lists, which ultimately go back to the star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest . This article focuses on one limited but eye-catching aspect of this intellectual phenomenon: stars names found in the Bible appear in twelfth-centur…
A kingdom of stargazers
The primary aim of this book is to explore interest in astrology and some occult practices within the culture of the later Middle Ages. In particular this work studies these topics in the Crown of
Two Hebrew Fragments from Unknown Redactions of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Mivḥarim and Sefer ha-Šeʾelot
Redactions of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Mivḥ arim and Sefer ha-ŠeʾelotThe examination of MS 363.3, a parchment bifolium in the Archivio di Stato, Modena, recently led to striking findings.First, although the right side of the verso and the left side of the recto bear a fragment of a hitherto unknown redaction of Sefer ha-Mivḥ arim (Book of elections) by Abraham Ibn Ezra, the left side of the verso and the right side of the recto contain another…
Sefer ha-Tequfah
The full text of a hitherto unnoticed treatise on anniversary horoscopy authored by Abraham Ibn Ezra, Sefer ha-Tequfah (Book of the revolution), has been identified. Although the author's name is not recorded in any of the surviving copies, cogent reasons establish Ibn Ezra's authorship: the Hebrew astrological nomenclature, style, content and structure, links to other parts of Ibn Ezra's oeuvre, and the discovery that Sefer ha-Tequfah is the Heb…
Abraham Bar Hiyya's Astrological Work and Thought
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Abraham Ibn Ezra's Scholarly Writings
All of Abraham Ibn Ezra's exegetical, grammatical, theological, and scientific compositions, written after his arrival in Rome in 1140, are listed chrono-logically in tabular form. The dates assigned to Ibn Ezra's works range from certain to very probable to probable to unknown; the table includes this information. Each entry in the table is accompanied by a detailed note pre-senting the relevant primary sources and scholarly literature on which …
Queries on Astrology Sent from Southern France to Maimonides
אסטרולוגיה ופרשנות המקרא בהגותו של אברהם אבן עזרא [Astrology and Biblical Exegesis in Abraham Ibn Ezra's Thought]
The Fuzzy Borders between Astronomy and Astrology in the Thought and Work of Three Twelfth-Century Jewish Intellectuals
A dual and contradictory trend can be observed regarding the dividing lines between astronomy and astrology in antiquity and in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, there was a tendency to draw a clear-cut distinction between astronomy and astrology and grant astronomy clear epistemological superiority over astrology. On the other hand, it was almost commonplace to refer to the close collaboration between astronomy and astrology. The fact that some …
Abraham Ibn Ezra's Scientific Corpus Basic Constituents and General Characterization
Abraham ibn Ezra's ( ca 1089- ca 1167) scientific corpus represented an exceptional case: instead of the common Latin model embodied by the scholar coming from the Christian North to the Iberian Peninsula to initiate a translation enterprise, we have in Ibn Ezra the contrary case of an intellectual imbued with the Arabic culture, who abandons al-Andalus, roams around the Christian countries and delivers in his wandering through Italy, France and …
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The Fuzzy Borders between Astronomy and Astrology in the Thought and Work of Three Twelfth-Century Jewish Intellectuals
A dual and contradictory trend can be observed regarding the dividing lines between astronomy and astrology in antiquity and in the Middle Ages. On the one hand, there was a tendency to draw a clear-cut distinction between astronomy and astrology and grant astronomy clear epistemological superiority over astrology. On the other hand, it was almost commonplace to refer to the close collaboration between astronomy and astrology. The fact that some …
Abraham Ibn Ezra's Scientific Corpus Basic Constituents and General Characterization
Abraham ibn Ezra's ( ca 1089- ca 1167) scientific corpus represented an exceptional case: instead of the common Latin model embodied by the scholar coming from the Christian North to the Iberian Peninsula to initiate a translation enterprise, we have in Ibn Ezra the contrary case of an intellectual imbued with the Arabic culture, who abandons al-Andalus, roams around the Christian countries and delivers in his wandering through Italy, France and …
אסטרולוגיה ופרשנות המקרא בהגותו של אברהם אבן עזרא [Astrology and Biblical Exegesis in Abraham Ibn Ezra's Thought]
Queries on Astrology Sent from Southern France to Maimonides
Abraham Bar Hiyya's Astrological Work and Thought
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Abraham Ibn Ezra's Scholarly Writings
All of Abraham Ibn Ezra's exegetical, grammatical, theological, and scientific compositions, written after his arrival in Rome in 1140, are listed chrono-logically in tabular form. The dates assigned to Ibn Ezra's works range from certain to very probable to probable to unknown; the table includes this information. Each entry in the table is accompanied by a detailed note pre-senting the relevant primary sources and scholarly literature on which …
Two Hebrew Fragments from Unknown Redactions of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Mivḥarim and Sefer ha-Šeʾelot
Redactions of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Mivḥ arim and Sefer ha-ŠeʾelotThe examination of MS 363.3, a parchment bifolium in the Archivio di Stato, Modena, recently led to striking findings.First, although the right side of the verso and the left side of the recto bear a fragment of a hitherto unknown redaction of Sefer ha-Mivḥ arim (Book of elections) by Abraham Ibn Ezra, the left side of the verso and the right side of the recto contain another…
Sefer ha-Tequfah
The full text of a hitherto unnoticed treatise on anniversary horoscopy authored by Abraham Ibn Ezra, Sefer ha-Tequfah (Book of the revolution), has been identified. Although the author's name is not recorded in any of the surviving copies, cogent reasons establish Ibn Ezra's authorship: the Hebrew astrological nomenclature, style, content and structure, links to other parts of Ibn Ezra's oeuvre, and the discovery that Sefer ha-Tequfah is the Heb…
A kingdom of stargazers
The primary aim of this book is to explore interest in astrology and some occult practices within the culture of the later Middle Ages. In particular this work studies these topics in the Crown of
Biblical stars in medieval Jewish thought (tenth-twelfth centuries)
The twelfth century witnessed a new Jewish interest in the fixed stars, which finds its major expression in the first-ever Hebrew lists of constellations and fixed stars. These are in fact translations into Hebrew of Arabic lists, which ultimately go back to the star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest . This article focuses on one limited but eye-catching aspect of this intellectual phenomenon: stars names found in the Bible appear in twelfth-centur…
Gersonides' Astrology and Abraham Ibn Ezra
This paper investigates Gersonides' use of the astrology prevalent in his day, namely, horoscopic astrology. It shows that for Gersonides, Abraham Ibn Ezra was a central source and point of reference on which he relied wherever he drew on astrology. The paper is divided into three parts. The first examines the extent of Gersonides' acquaintance with astrological literature, as reflected in his private library and writings. The second part looks a…
Abraham Ibn Ezra as the Translator of Astrological and Astronomical Texts from Arabic into Hebrew
Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089–ca. 1161) was born in Muslim Spain, but his extensive scientific corpus, dealing mainly with astrology and astronomy, was composed in Latin Europe and written almost exclusively in Hebrew. Recent work on Reshit Ḥokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom), an introduction to astrology that is considered to be the zenith of Ibn Ezra’s astrological work, revealed that at least one-fourth of this text consists of translations or close pa…
The Impact of Hagin le Juif's French Translations on Subsequent Latin Translations of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings
From the Middle Ages until the present, the development of astrology among Jews has been associated with Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089–ca. 1161). He created the first comprehensive set of Hebrew astrological textbooks, which addressed the main systems of Arabic astrology and provided Hebrew readers with access to the subject. Some of his works became known to Christian scholars during his years in the Latin West and shortly after his death. However,…
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