Shlomo Sela's Abraham Ibn Ezra. The Book of Reasons: A Parallel PDF

By Shlomo Sela

ISBN-10: 9004157646

ISBN-13: 9789004157644

The current quantity bargains a serious Hebrew textual content of the 2 types of Ibn Ezras Sefer ha-Te'amim, the publication of purposes, observed through an annotated translation and observation. the 2 treatises awarded right here have been designed through Ibn Ezra to provide purposes, causes, or meanings of the uncooked astrological suggestions formulated within the creation to astrology that Ibn Ezra entitled Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom).

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7] (8) They said that the heart of the east belongs to it because of its heat and because day and night become equal in it; consequently they said that the heart of the east belongs to it. [8] (10) They also said that its [Aries’] heat is tempered because of the weather, and in like manner that the blood belongs to it. (11) Of the tastes the sweet[9] and of the colors the reddish and any color that is saffron yellow because this color is intermediate between whiteness and blackness.

Amim II, which begins with the following declaration: “End of the book. 62 This cross-reference from Te . #amim I to Te#amim . which is almost certainly the work of a scribe in the first decades after the completion of Te#amim I and Te . #amim II, appears in all the available manuscripts, a fact that must drastically lower any expectations that an exhaustive study of the manuscripts might enable scholars to determine with precision the original Hebrew texts of Te II as . #amim I and Te#amim . written by the author.

Amim II merely represent thematic divisions that are unwarranted by any formal feature of the text. The translation is meant to help readers understand the two Hebrew texts with as much fidelity as possible. As already mentioned, in the final analysis these translations represent a commentary on the Hebrew text. The English is divided into the same chapters, sections, and passages as the Hebrew. The bracketed numbers in the English translation refer to the notes that follow the texts. These notes are intended to illustrate the links between Te#amim I and Te .

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