Levi Ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the Fourteenth Century
The Hebrew supercommentaries on the commentaries of Ibn Rushd indicate that Aristotelian science and philosophy were intensively studied by Jews. This study deals with the early Hebrew supercommentaries written in southern France, and its main conclusion is that, contra Steinschneider, the earliest...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Penn Press
1995
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The Jewish quarterly review
Jahr: 1995, Band: 86, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 51-90 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Hebrew supercommentaries on the commentaries of Ibn Rushd indicate that Aristotelian science and philosophy were intensively studied by Jews. This study deals with the early Hebrew supercommentaries written in southern France, and its main conclusion is that, contra Steinschneider, the earliest such supercommentaries known to us are those of Levi ben Gershom. The supercommentaries which Steinschneider dates to the thirteenth century (notably those of Yedaʿya Ha-Penini and Solomon of Urgul) were in fact written in the fourteenth century. This study also shows that Levi ben Gershom had students who studied Aristotelian science under his direction, thus confirming Renan and Neubauer's assumption that Urgul and several other commentators belonged to "the school of Levi." So far as we know, Levi ben Gershom was not only the first to compose Hebrew supercommentaries but was also the center of a group of scholars who studied the writings of Ibn Rushd. He was highly regarded and had an important role in the dissemination of the writings of Ibn Rushd in the Jewish communities of southern France. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1454822 |