| Description |
1 online resource (x, 187 pages) |
| Series |
Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; t. 40 |
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Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 40
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| Contents |
The author -- Literary activity -- Sefer Koʼaḥ ha-avanim (On the virtue of the stones) -- The source(s) of Sefer Koʼaḥ ha-avanim (On the virtue of the stones) -- The critical edition of Sefer Koʼah ha-avanim -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Text and translation -- Comparative table -- The Koach ha-avanim in its French context: Romance and Latin terms and sources -- The language -- Lexical and graphical problems -- Lexical aspects -- Graphical aspects -- conventions of transliteration -- The sources -- Lexical commentary on the Romance and latin terms -- Berakhyah's sources -- Tables of the sources -- Anglo-Norman source texts -- Latin source texts -- Hebrew-French/Latin/Greek glossary -- French/Latin-Hebrew glossary -- Greek-Hebrew glossary |
| Summary |
The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Koa? ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben N |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English and Hebrew |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, active 12th century-13th century. Sefer Ko'aḥ ha-avanim
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Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, active 12th century-13th century Sefer Ko'aḥ ha-avanim |
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Gems -- Folklore.
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Medicine, Medieval -- Folklore
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Magic.
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Lapidaries (Medieval literature)
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Folklore.
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Minerals -- therapeutic use
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Medicine, Traditional -- history
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Folklore
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Magic
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Medicine in Literature
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History, Medieval
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illusion (performing art)
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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magic (occult science)
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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Medicine in literature
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Gems
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Lapidaries (Medieval literature)
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Magic
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Medicine, Medieval
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Lithotherapie.
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Lapidarium (Literatur)
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Mishnah-Hebräisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zwink, Julia.
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Bos, Gerrit, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9789004185975 |
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9004185976 |
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