The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book (Princeton Legacy Library) - Brossura

Patai, Raphael

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ISBN 10: 069160312X ISBN 13: 9780691603124

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2014

Riassunto

In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions.

Originally published in 1994.

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Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Scholarship

"Raphael Patai seeks to break what he sees as the code of silence surrounding the history of Jewish alchemy, and his book represents the findings of years of intense research in this little-known subject. . . . To the author's great credit he has marshaled a vast array of sources in an effort to reaffirm that which was proclaimed by both Jewish and especially non-Jewish alchemists until the rise of the 19th-century Jewish scholarship--namely, that the Jews played a seminal role in the history of alchemy." --John Efron, Forward

"Groundbreaking and highly original treatise. . . . Before Patai's monumental study, the exact knowledge of the Jewish input into alchemy was minimal. . . . [Raphael Patai] has brought the searching light of his extraordinary excavation skills into the unearthing of a dusty but now glimmering vein of the Jewish experience." --Arnold Ages, Midstream

Contenuti:

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Pt. 1	Prelude
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Biblical Figures as Alchemists	18
Ch. 3	Alchemy in Bible and Talmud?	41
Pt. 2	The Hellenistic Age
Ch. 4	Jews in Hellenistic Alchemy	50
Ch. 5	Maria the Jewess	60
Ch. 6	Zosimus on Maria the Jewess	81
Pt. 3	The Early Arab World
Ch. 7	Abufalah's Alchemy	98
Ch. 8	A Hebrew Version of the Book of Alums and Salts	119
Ch. 9	Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid	125
Pt. 4	The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Ch. 10	Artephius	141
Ch. 11	The Great Jewish Philosophers	144
Ch. 12	Kabbalah and Alchemy: A Reconsideration	152
Pt. 5	The Fourteenth Century
Ch. 13	Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist	175
Ch. 14	The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew	204
Ch. 15	Flamel's Jewish Masters	218
Ch. 16	Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists	234
Ch. 17	Abraham Eleazar	238
Ch. 18	Themo Judaei	258
Pt. 6	The Fifteenth Century
Ch. 19	Simeon ben Semah Duran	264
Ch. 20	Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master	268
Ch. 21	Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica	271
Ch. 22	Isaac Hollandus and His Son John Isaac	289
Ch. 23	Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo	293
Ch. 24	Pseudo-Maimonides	300
Ch. 25	Three Kuzari Commentators	314
Pt. 7	The Sixteenth Century
Ch. 26	Esh Msaref: A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise	322
Ch. 27	Taitazak and Provencali	336
Ch. 28	Hayyim Vital, Alchemist	340
Ch. 29	An Alchemical Miscellany	365
Ch. 30	Labi, Hamawi, and Portaleone	376
Ch. 31	The Manchester (John Rylands) Manuscript	381
Pt. 8	The Seventeenth Century
Ch. 32	Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah	399
Ch. 33	Four Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts	407
Ch. 34	Benjamin Mussafia	437
Ch. 35	Benjamin Jesse	447
Pt. 9	The Eighteenth Century
Ch. 36	Hayyim Shmuel Falck	455
Ch. 37	The Comte de Saint-Germain	463
Ch. 38	Jacob Emden; de Bar Ilan Manuscript	480
Pt. 10	The Nineteenth Century
Ch. 39	An Alchemical Manuscript from Jerba	492
Ch. 40	Mordecai Abi Serour	514
	Conclusion: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy	517
	Appendix: An Alchemical Vocabulary from Jerba	525
	Notes	543
	Index	589

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 069160312X
• ISBN 13: 9780691603124
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 634