Resianne Fontaine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Resianne Fontaine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Resianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontaine |
| SIGNATURE | FONTAINE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1418-3616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Hebrew Encyclopedia of the Thirteenth Century. Natural Philosophy in Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah
The first of the three major thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, the Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah presents a survey of philosophy and mathematical sciences. Originally written in Arabic, the author, Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen, who was inspired by Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, translated his own work into Hebrew in the 124os in Italy when he was in the service of Frederick II. The part on natural philosophy edited and tr…
Philosophy and Medicine in Jewish Provence, Anno 1199
Galen's Technê iatrikê ( Tegni , for short) was translated into Hebrew three times. The first two translations were executed in the Midi, around the year 1199: once from Constantine the African's Latin version, by an anonymous physician who used the pseudonym “Doeg the Edomite”; and a second time from Arabic, by Samuel Ibn Tibbon in Béziers, using as his Vorlage Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq's Arabic version ( al-Ṣināʿa al-saġīra ), accompanied by ʿAlī Ibn Ri…
The Letter before the Spirit
The Letter before the Spirit contains original articles based on the papers given at the Huygens ING (The Hague, 2009) on the importance of text editions for the study of the transmission of Aristotle’s works in the Semitico-Latin translations and their commentary tradition in the medieval world. Authors underline this importance in general overviews and theoretical outlines and present their own work on various text editions, ranging from Syriac…
For the Dossier of Abraham Ibn Daud. Some Observations on an Anonymous Commentary on ha-Emunah ha-Ramah
Love of One’s Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Berit
The Immortality of the Soul in Pinchas Hurwitz s Sefer ha-Berit
»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
On pre‐modern Hebrew and Yiddish encyclopedias
The use of the term “encyclopedias” for pre‐modern writings is problematical. Nonetheless, medieval and early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature comprises a number of texts that reveal encyclopedic features and therefore can be considered to belong to the genre of encyclopedias. Their authors strove to transmit introductory knowledge on a broad variety of subjects and to make it easily accessible to their readers. As was the case in the non‐Jew…
An Unexpected Source of Meir Aldabi's Shevile Emunah
Abraham ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhmah a Mini-Discovery
The Reception of Aristotle's Meteorology in Hebrew Scientific Writings of the Thirteenth Century
The reception history of Aristotle's Meteorology in Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic version of the Aristotelian text and in the Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy written during the thirteenth century is studied. Gershom ben Solomon's Shaʾar ha-Shamayim used Ibn Tibbon's translation as its major source, whereas Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥoḵmah and Shemtov Ibn Falaquera's Deʾot ha-Filosofim relied on …
Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia
RELIGIOUS POLEMICS IN A PHILOSOPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: JUDAH HA-COHEN ON 'THE CHOSEN PEOPLE' Introduction The religious disputation that constitutes the subject of this 'zuta' may itself be fittingly called a 'zuta'.1t is found towards the end of the Midrash ha-Hokhmah ('The Exposition of the Sciences', hereafter MH), an ency- clopedic work composed by Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen of Toledo during the third and fourth decades of the thirteenth century…
Between Scorching Heat and Freezing Cold
The question of which areas of the earth are fit for human habitation and which ones are not is dealt with in several Hebrew scientific texts of the twelfth and thirteenth century. Medieval Jewish scholars such as Abraham bar [Hdotu]iyya, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and the three thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedists were familiar with theories of the oikoumene and its boundaries through Arabic sources. These Hebrew texts display a variety of views on …
A History of Jewish Gynaecological Texts in the Middle AgesBarkaiRon A History of Jewish Gynaecological Texts in the Middle Ages Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, vol. 20BrillLeiden, 1998, xi, 241
"Medico-Philosophical Controversies in Nathan B. Yoʾel Falaquera's "Sefer Ṣori ha-Guf
אותות השמים (Otot ha-Shamayim)
Why is the Sea Salty? The Discussion of Salinity in Hebrew texts of the Thirteenth Century
The thirteenth-century Hebrew texts that discuss salinity all ultimately go back to Aristotle's treatment of the subject in the Meteorology . However, in these Hebrew texts the question of what exactly makes the sea salty is answered in diverging ways. The oldest of them, the Otot ha-Shamayim (1210), being the Hebrew translation of the Arabic paraphrase of the Meteorology , proposes various causes of the sea's salinity, to wit, the dry exhalation…
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Why is the Sea Salty? The Discussion of Salinity in Hebrew texts of the Thirteenth Century
The thirteenth-century Hebrew texts that discuss salinity all ultimately go back to Aristotle's treatment of the subject in the Meteorology . However, in these Hebrew texts the question of what exactly makes the sea salty is answered in diverging ways. The oldest of them, the Otot ha-Shamayim (1210), being the Hebrew translation of the Arabic paraphrase of the Meteorology , proposes various causes of the sea's salinity, to wit, the dry exhalation…
אותות השמים (Otot ha-Shamayim)
A History of Jewish Gynaecological Texts in the Middle AgesBarkaiRon A History of Jewish Gynaecological Texts in the Middle Ages Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, vol. 20BrillLeiden, 1998, xi, 241
"Medico-Philosophical Controversies in Nathan B. Yoʾel Falaquera's "Sefer Ṣori ha-Guf
Between Scorching Heat and Freezing Cold
The question of which areas of the earth are fit for human habitation and which ones are not is dealt with in several Hebrew scientific texts of the twelfth and thirteenth century. Medieval Jewish scholars such as Abraham bar [Hdotu]iyya, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and the three thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedists were familiar with theories of the oikoumene and its boundaries through Arabic sources. These Hebrew texts display a variety of views on …
The Reception of Aristotle's Meteorology in Hebrew Scientific Writings of the Thirteenth Century
The reception history of Aristotle's Meteorology in Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic version of the Aristotelian text and in the Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy written during the thirteenth century is studied. Gershom ben Solomon's Shaʾar ha-Shamayim used Ibn Tibbon's translation as its major source, whereas Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥoḵmah and Shemtov Ibn Falaquera's Deʾot ha-Filosofim relied on …
Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia
RELIGIOUS POLEMICS IN A PHILOSOPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: JUDAH HA-COHEN ON 'THE CHOSEN PEOPLE' Introduction The religious disputation that constitutes the subject of this 'zuta' may itself be fittingly called a 'zuta'.1t is found towards the end of the Midrash ha-Hokhmah ('The Exposition of the Sciences', hereafter MH), an ency- clopedic work composed by Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen of Toledo during the third and fourth decades of the thirteenth century…
Abraham ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhmah a Mini-Discovery
An Unexpected Source of Meir Aldabi's Shevile Emunah
The Immortality of the Soul in Pinchas Hurwitz s Sefer ha-Berit
»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
On pre‐modern Hebrew and Yiddish encyclopedias
The use of the term “encyclopedias” for pre‐modern writings is problematical. Nonetheless, medieval and early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature comprises a number of texts that reveal encyclopedic features and therefore can be considered to belong to the genre of encyclopedias. Their authors strove to transmit introductory knowledge on a broad variety of subjects and to make it easily accessible to their readers. As was the case in the non‐Jew…
Love of One’s Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Berit
For the Dossier of Abraham Ibn Daud. Some Observations on an Anonymous Commentary on ha-Emunah ha-Ramah
The Letter before the Spirit
The Letter before the Spirit contains original articles based on the papers given at the Huygens ING (The Hague, 2009) on the importance of text editions for the study of the transmission of Aristotle’s works in the Semitico-Latin translations and their commentary tradition in the medieval world. Authors underline this importance in general overviews and theoretical outlines and present their own work on various text editions, ranging from Syriac…
Philosophy and Medicine in Jewish Provence, Anno 1199
Galen's Technê iatrikê ( Tegni , for short) was translated into Hebrew three times. The first two translations were executed in the Midi, around the year 1199: once from Constantine the African's Latin version, by an anonymous physician who used the pseudonym “Doeg the Edomite”; and a second time from Arabic, by Samuel Ibn Tibbon in Béziers, using as his Vorlage Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq's Arabic version ( al-Ṣināʿa al-saġīra ), accompanied by ʿAlī Ibn Ri…
A Hebrew Encyclopedia of the Thirteenth Century. Natural Philosophy in Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen's Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah
The first of the three major thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, the Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah presents a survey of philosophy and mathematical sciences. Originally written in Arabic, the author, Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen, who was inspired by Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, translated his own work into Hebrew in the 124os in Italy when he was in the service of Frederick II. The part on natural philosophy edited and tr…
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