Abraham Ibn Ezra the Book of the World: A Parallel Hebrew English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text. Abraham Ibn Era's Astrological Wri

by Abraham Ben Me'ir Ibn Ezra

The present volume offers the first critical edition of the Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra's Book of the World, accompanied by an English translation and a commentary. These twin treatises represent the first Hebrew work, unique in medieval Jewish science, to discuss the theories and techniques of historical and meteorological astrology that had accumulated from Antiquity to Ibn Ezra's time, on the basis of Greek, Hindu, Persian, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004179143
• ISBN13: 9789004179141
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.7"