The medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy
Subtitle: proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University conference
By: edited by Steven Harvey.
Contributors: Harvey, Steven, 1949-
Series: Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought -- v. 7
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Hebrew -- History and criticism; Jewish learning and scholarship -- History -- To 1500; Philosophy, Jewish; Philosophy, Medieval; Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Latin -- History and criticism; Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic -- History and criticism
Description: "In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy.

The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference.

This volume also includes in annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebracischen Ubersetungen." "The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 520-521) and indexes.