Astrologumena Judaica

Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der astrologischen Literatur der Juden

by Reimund Leicht

Extent: 413 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Jewish Studies

Series: Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism

Series volume number: 21

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2006)

ISBN: 9783161489112

Price: $174.00

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English summary: In these five studies, Reimund Leicht gives an introduction to central aspects of the history of Hebrew astrological literature in antiquity and the Middle Ages. He also provides the most comprehensive description which has been given up to now of the rich astrological literary tradition of Judaism, which had previously only been available mainly in handwritten manuscripts. He reconstructs the beginnings of Jewish astrological literature during Hellenism and presents a corpus of astrological texts in Hebrew and Aramaic which were previously completely unknown. The author studies the way this astrological legacy endured and developed in medieval Judaism in Europe and in the Orient and looks into the origins of the Jewish astro-magic of the Sefer Raziel . In conclusion, he discusses the Hebrew astromagical translation literature. German description: Reimund Leicht fuhrt mit funf Untersuchungen in zentrale Aspekte der Geschichte der hebraischen astrologischen Literatur der Antike und des Mittelalters ein. Er bietet zugleich die bislang umfassendste Darstellung der reichen astrologischen Literaturtradition des Judentums, die bisher uberwiegend nur in Handschriften zuganglich und damit auch dem Fachpublikum kaum bekannt war. Am Beginn steht eine Rekonstruktion der Anfange der astrologischen Literatur der Juden in der Epoche des Hellenismus. In einem zweiten Teil stellt er ein bislang vollig unbekanntes Korpus von astrologischen Texten in hebraischer und aramaischer Sprache vor, das ein neues Licht auf die judische Kultur der Spatantike im Wechselspiel von rabbinischer Tradition und hellenistischer und christlicher Umweltkultur wirft. Das Fortleben und die Weiterentwicklung dieses astrologischen Erbes im judischen Mittelalter in Europa und im Orient ist Schwerpunkt des dritten Teils des Buches. Im vierten Teil untersucht der Autor die Entstehung der judischen Astromagie des Sefer Raziel und ihr Fortwirken im lateinischen Mittelalter. Abschliessend diskutiert er die hebraische astromagische Ubersetzungsliteratur, die vor allem im mittelalterlichen Spanien und in der Provence entstand und dort, ahnlich wie im Christentum, zunachst heftige Auseinandersetzungen uber das Wesen der (Astro-)Magie hervorrief.

By (author) Reimund Leicht

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