Avicenna in medieval Hebrew translation
Subtitle: Todros Todrosi's translation of Kitab al-najat, on psychology and metaphysics
By: by Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin
Series: Islamic philosophy, theology and science : text and studies -- volume 91; Islamic philosophy, theology, and science -- v. 91.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ara; heb
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789004277489; 9789004281974
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; History; Arabic literature; Translations into Hebrew; Medieval Hebrew literature; History and criticism; Psychology; Metaphysics; Übersetzung; Hebräisch
Description: "In this volume, Gabriella Elgrably-Berzin offers an analysis of the fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of a major eleventh-century philosophical text: Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Salvation), focusing on the psychology treatise on physics. The translator of this work was Ṭodros Ṭodrosi, the main Hebrew translator of Avicenna’s philosophical writings. This study includes a critical edition of Ṭodrosi’s translation, based on two manuscripts as compared to the Arabic edition (Cairo, 1938), and an appendix featuring the section on metaphysics. By analyzing Ṭodrosi’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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text and translations in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.