Tamás Visi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4439781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamás Visi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamás |
| FAMILY NAME | Visi |
| SIGNATURE | VISI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center for Jewish Studies, https://dx.doi.org/161955Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3857-1453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sefer Asaf
The origins of Sefer Asaf can be reconstructed as follows. In the mid-eighth century a group of Jews learned medicine from dyophysite Christian monks in Western Iran. They paraphrased a few short Syriac texts in Hebrew and used them as reference books. During the ninth century, some of these Jewish healers migrated to Southern Italy, where they learned Greek and studied Greek medical literature. They paraphrased some works of Hippocrates and a Gr…
The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe
Sinful Money
In Jewish religious literature of the Second Temple period, coins as physical objects were closely associated with the sins that were committed through them. Such ‘tainted money’ could bring about bad luck or divine punishment to its owner according to the mindset of the authors. Some of the religious ideals reflected in early Christian texts can be interpreted as responses to the anxiety about sinful money too. Ascetic life in desert and volunta…
Pilate Delivered Jesus to Them
Some of the ancient manuscripts and versions of Mark 15.15 add the phrase ‘to them’ after the verb ‘[Pilate] delivered [Jesus]’, suggesting that Pilate delivered Jesus to the Jewish crowd who subsequently crucified him. This textual variant was well-established in the Syriac and Ethiopic traditions while it remained marginal in the Greek, Latin, and Coptic traditions. This pattern suggests that those translators and readers of the gospels who liv…
The Chronology of John the Baptist and the Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
The consensus of present-day historians that Jesus was crucified around the year 30 ce has been challenged by a minority of scholars who argue that the execution of John the Baptist could not take place earlier than 35 ce , and for that reason Jesus must have been crucified at the Passover of 36 ce . This paper argues that both parties have strong and convincing arguments, and for that reason we must conclude that John was probably executed after…
Jewish Physicians in Late Medieval Ashkenaz
Medical writings written by Jews in late medieval Western and Central Europe demonstrate that although Jews were excluded from universities, the medical world outside of the universities was open to them. Jewish medical writers relied on Latin and vernacular sources and often they wrote in German. Emphasising the importance of knowledge of authoritative books, they attempted to secure their social standing by demonstrating that they confirmed to …
A Moravian defence of orthodoxy
Rabbinic literature was the most prestigious genre of literature in early nineteenth-century Moravia. Debates between rabbis shaped public discourse on the local level. As a consequence, maskilic literature could occupy only a peripheral position in the literary system. This point is illustrated by Benjamin Zeev Wolf Prerau’s supercommentary on Ibn Ezra and by Samson Bloch’s geographical–ethnographical work, Shevilei olam. Mordecai Benet, the chi…
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A Moravian defence of orthodoxy
Rabbinic literature was the most prestigious genre of literature in early nineteenth-century Moravia. Debates between rabbis shaped public discourse on the local level. As a consequence, maskilic literature could occupy only a peripheral position in the literary system. This point is illustrated by Benjamin Zeev Wolf Prerau’s supercommentary on Ibn Ezra and by Samson Bloch’s geographical–ethnographical work, Shevilei olam. Mordecai Benet, the chi…
Jewish Physicians in Late Medieval Ashkenaz
Medical writings written by Jews in late medieval Western and Central Europe demonstrate that although Jews were excluded from universities, the medical world outside of the universities was open to them. Jewish medical writers relied on Latin and vernacular sources and often they wrote in German. Emphasising the importance of knowledge of authoritative books, they attempted to secure their social standing by demonstrating that they confirmed to …
The Chronology of John the Baptist and the Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
The consensus of present-day historians that Jesus was crucified around the year 30 ce has been challenged by a minority of scholars who argue that the execution of John the Baptist could not take place earlier than 35 ce , and for that reason Jesus must have been crucified at the Passover of 36 ce . This paper argues that both parties have strong and convincing arguments, and for that reason we must conclude that John was probably executed after…
Pilate Delivered Jesus to Them
Some of the ancient manuscripts and versions of Mark 15.15 add the phrase ‘to them’ after the verb ‘[Pilate] delivered [Jesus]’, suggesting that Pilate delivered Jesus to the Jewish crowd who subsequently crucified him. This textual variant was well-established in the Syriac and Ethiopic traditions while it remained marginal in the Greek, Latin, and Coptic traditions. This pattern suggests that those translators and readers of the gospels who liv…
Sefer Asaf
The origins of Sefer Asaf can be reconstructed as follows. In the mid-eighth century a group of Jews learned medicine from dyophysite Christian monks in Western Iran. They paraphrased a few short Syriac texts in Hebrew and used them as reference books. During the ninth century, some of these Jewish healers migrated to Southern Italy, where they learned Greek and studied Greek medical literature. They paraphrased some works of Hippocrates and a Gr…
The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe
Sinful Money
In Jewish religious literature of the Second Temple period, coins as physical objects were closely associated with the sins that were committed through them. Such ‘tainted money’ could bring about bad luck or divine punishment to its owner according to the mindset of the authors. Some of the religious ideals reflected in early Christian texts can be interpreted as responses to the anxiety about sinful money too. Ascetic life in desert and volunta…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biblical studies (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works)