Avicenna in Medieval Hebrew Translation

Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's Translation of Kitāb Al-Najāt, on Psychology and Metaphysics
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27748-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitab al-Najat (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Todros Todrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Todrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Todrosi’s language and terminology and making his Hebrew translation available for the first time, Berzin’s study will help enable scholars to trace the borrowings from Todrosi’s translations in Jewish sources, shedding light on the transmission and impact of Avicenna’s philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elgrably-Berzin, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriella Berzin, Ph.D. (2010), Harvard University, is a lecturer in Jewish philosophy at the IDC, Herzliya. She has written on Maimonides, Crescas, and the “Hebrew Avicenna,” and served as a text editor of Anthology of the Writings of Avicenna (in Hebrew).