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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Translation of Arabic and Latin

Understanding science in the widest possible sense, this guide offers resources for how Jews investigate, react to, and engage with the physical universe.

Translations

Ben-Zaken, Avner

Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560–1660

JHU Press, 2010

Van Pelt Library. Q127.M38 B46 2010

 

Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama

“Transmitting Medicine across Religions:  Jean of Avignon’s Hebrew Translation of the Lilium medicine,” pp. 121-145, and with Uri Melamed, “Appendix:  Jean of Avignon’s Introduction to his Translaion of Lilium medicine, an annotated critical edition and translation,” pp. 146-159 in, Latin-into-Hebrew, volume one, Studies (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2013) edd. Resianne Fontaine and Gad Freudenthal

Katz Center - Stacks. PN811 .L38 2013

Van Pelt Library. PN811 .L38 2013

 

Drory, Rina

Models and Contacts: Arabic Literature and Its Impact on Medieval Jewish Culture

Leiden:  Brill, 2000

Katz Center - Stacks. PJ7530 .D76 2000

Van Pelt Library. PJ7530 .D76 2000

 

Einbender, Susan and Michael McVaugh

“Latin into Hebrew – Twice Over!  Presenting Latin Scholastic Medicine to a Jewish Audience,” pp. 31-44 in, Latin-into-Hebrew, volume one, Studies (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2013) edd. Resianne Fontaine and Gad Freudenthal

Katz Center - Stacks. PN811 .L38 2013

Van Pelt Library. PN811 .L38 2013

 

Ferré, Lola

“Los judíos, transmisores y receptores de la sabiduría medieval,” Revista Espanola de Filosoffa Medieval 7 (2000) 81-93

https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/refime/article/view/9441/8938

 

Fidora, Alexander, Harvey J. Hames and Yossef Schwartz, edd.

Latin-into-Hebrew, volume two, Texts

Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2013

Katz Center - Stacks. PN811 .L38 2013

Van Pelt Library. PN811 .L38 2013

 

Fontaine, Resianne and Gad Freudenthal, edd.

Latin-into-Hebrew, volume one, Studies

Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2013

Katz Center - Stacks. PN811 .L38 2013

Van Pelt Library. PN811 .L38 2013

 

Freudenthal, Gad

“From Arabic to Hebrew: The Reception of the Greco-Arab Sciences in Hebrew (Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries),” pp. 796-815 in, A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2013) edd. Abdelwahab Meddeb, Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd and Michael B. Smith

Katz Center - Stacks. BP173.J8 H5613 2013

Van Pelt Library. BP173.J8 H5613 2013

 

Freudenthal, Gad

“Arabic and Latin Cultures as Resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement: Comparative Considerations, both Quantitative and Qualitative,” pp. 74–105 in, Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal

Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

 

Harvey, Steven

“Arabic into Hebrew:  The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought,” pp. 258-280 in, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2003) edd. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman

Van Pelt Library. B755 .C36 2003

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/498706

 

Harvey, Steven

“Why did Fourteenth-Century Jews Turn to Alghazali’s Account of Natural Science?,” Jewish Quarterly Review 91 (2001) 359-376

Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J48
Research Annex (LIBRA). 
DS101 .J48

 

Kahana-Smilansky, Hagar

“Solomon ben Moses Melguiri and the Transmission of Knowledge from Latin into Hebrew,” pp. 283-302 in, Studies in the history of culture and science: a tribute to Gad Freudenthal

(Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011) ed. Resianne Fontaine

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 S78 2011

Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 S78 2011

 

Lévy, Tony

“The Establishment of the Mathematical Bookshelf of the Medieval Hebrew Scholar:  Translations and Translators,” Science in Context 10 (1997) 431–451

Van Pelt Library. Q175.4 .S343

 

Mancha, J.L.

“The dedicatory letter and the Prologue of Levi ben Gerhom’s Tractatus instumenti astronomiae,” Aleph 17 (2017) 221-249

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/669422/pdf

 

Manekin, Charles H.

Steinschneider's Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. From Reference Work to Digitalized Database,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 7 (2000) 141-159

Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM70 .J485

Van Pelt Library. BM70.J485

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40753260

 

McVaugh, Michael and Lola Ferré

The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blaise and Its Hebrew Translation.  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 90, pt. 6

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000

Katz Center - Stacks. R128 .B5612 2000

Van Pelt Library. Q11 .P6 v.90 pt.6

 

Millás-Vallicrosa, José M.

“Translations of Oriental Scientific Works (to the end of the Thirteenth Century),” pp. 128-167 in, The Evolution of Science, Readings from the History of Mankind (Chicago; New York:  New American Library, 1963) edd. Guy S. Métraux and François Crouzet

Research Annex (LIBRA). 509 C112

 

Robinson, James T.

“The Ibn Tibbon Family: A Dynasty of Translators in Medieval Provence,” pp. 193-224 in, Be’erot Yitzhak: Studies in Memory of Isadore Twersky, ed. J. Harris (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005)

Katz Center - Stacks. BM180 .B44 2005

Van Pelt Library. BM180 .B44 2005

 

Rothschild, J.P.

“Motivations et méthodes des traductions en hébreu du milieu du XIIe à la fin du XVe siècle,” pp. 279-302 in, Traduction et traducteurs au Moyen Âge (Colloque International du CNRS, IRHT, 26–28 mai 1986), (Paris:  Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1989) ed. Geneviève Contamine

Van Pelt Library. P306.T655 1989

 

Samsó, Julio

“Traduccions i obres cientifiques originals elaborades en medis jueus.  El desenvolupament de l’hebreu com a llengua cientifica.  La seva projecció al Llenguadoc i a la Provença,” pp. 297-325 in, La ciència en la historia dels Països Catalans.  I.  Dels àrabs al Renaixement (Valencia, 2004) edd. Juan Vernet Ginés and Ramon Parés i Farràs

Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard University

 

Sela, Shlomo

"Pietro d'Abano, Translator of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Writings," Sefarad 79 (2019) 7-87

Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .S4

Van Pelt Library. DS101 .S4

 

Sela, Shlomo

“al-Farghānī on the 48 Ptolemaic constellations:  a newly discovered text in Hebrew translation,” Aleph 16 (2016) 249-365

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/627990/pdf

 

Shatzmiller, Joseph

“Jacob Ben Elie, traducteur Multilingue à Venise à la fin du XIIIe siècle,” Micrologus: nature, sciences and medieval societies IX (2001) 195-202

Research Annex (LIBRA). Q124.97 .M537

 

Sirat, C.

“Les traducteurs juifs à la cour des rois de Sicile et de Naples,” pp. 169-191 in, Traductions et traducteurs au Moyen Age (Paris:  Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1989) ed. Geneviève Contamine

Van Pelt Library. P306.T655 1989

 

Smithuis, Renate

“Abraham Ibn Ezra`s Astrological Works in Hebrew and Latin: New Discoveries and Exhaustive Listing,” Aleph 6 (2006) 239-338

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447

Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/203928/pdf

 

Steinschneider, Moritz

“Schriften der Araber in hebräischen Handschriften,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlädischen Gesellschaft 47 (1893) 335-384

Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PJ5 .D4

Van Pelt Library. PJ5 .D4

http://www.jstor.org/stable/43362315

 

Valle Rodríguez, Carlos del

“Algunos aspectos del impacto de la lengua arabe en la gramatica y en la lengua hebrea,” pp. 107-120 in, L'interculturalità dell'Ebraismo (Ravenna : Longo, 2004) ed. Mauro Perani

Katz Center - Stacks. BM534 .I58 2004

Van Pelt Library. BM534 .I58 2004

 

Visi, Tamás

“Berechiah ben Naṭronai ha-Naqdan’s Dodi ve-Neḵdi and the Transfer of Scientific Knowledge from Latin to Hebrew in the Twelfth Century,” Aleph 14 (2014) 9-75

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/554174/pdf

 

Zonta, Mauro Zonta

Hebrew transmission of Arabic philosophy and science: a reconstruction of Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera's 'Arabic library',” pp. 121-138 in, L'interculturalità dell'Ebraismo (Ravenna : Longo, 2004) ed. Mauro Perani

Katz Center - Stacks. BM534 .I58 2004

Van Pelt Library. BM534 .I58 2004

 

Zonta, Mauro

“Medieval Hebrew Translations of Philosophical and Scientific Texts: A Chronological Table,” pp. 17-73 in, Science in medieval Jewish cultures (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal

Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

 

Zonta, Mauro

“Avicennas Metaphysics in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition,” pp. 153-158 in, The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics (Walter de Gruyter, 2011) edd. Dag Nikolaus Hasse and Amos Bertolacci

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