Key to Locked Doors

Fabian Käs (Ph.D., Munich 2008), Jessica Kley (M.A., Cologne 2007), and Felix Hedderich (M.A., Cologne 2010), are research fellows at the University of Cologne. Since many years, they have been assisting Gerrit Bos in editing and analysing medieval Hebrew and Arabic texts on medicine.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors and EditorsPublications by Gerrit BosContents of the VolumePart1 Philosophy, Theology, and Religion1 Eine muʿtazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem“Hirngespinst” oder literarische Gestaltung?Hans Daiber2 Alfarabi on Divine AttributesCatarina Belo3 A Land Ripe for ConquestAn Amorite Parallel to the Biblical Story of the SpiesNathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch4 The Ambiguity of JewishnessReflections on a Basic Concept of Jewish StudiesPhilipp Lenhard5 Non-linear Paths of TransmissionThe First Written Reactions to the Recorded Oral Teachings on the Kabbalistic Intentions of PrayerDaniel Abrams6 The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative ActThe Scribe, “Eternal Pen Pusher” or “Skilled Practitioner”?Dan Levene7 “Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward”Prolegomenon to a Scriptural Conversation between the Qurʾān and the Book of MormonD.Morgan DavisPart2 Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences8 Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical MetaphorsSamuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen9 Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and MedicineVivian Nutton10 Fürs Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz!Zur frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Überlieferung von De succedaneisKlaus-Dietrich Fischer11 Un terminus ante quem pour la rédaction de la pharmacopée célèbre de Sābūr ibn Sahl (m. 255/869)Oliver Kahl12 Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn Ǧumaiʿs Abhandlung über den SchwindelFabian Käs13 Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black SeedRemke Kruk14 Galen in the Guide—and beyondLennE. Goodman15 Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian TalmudTheodore Kwasman16 Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the YemenY.Tzvi LangermannPart3 Occidental Reception17 The Name of the ThiefAn Episode in the Transmission of Arabic Letters to the WestCharles Burnett18 A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture“Magister Maynus” of Réalmont (1304)Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller19 Maimonides als VorbildHebräische Kommentare zu AphorismusI:1Carsten Schliwski20 Epithymum for MelancholyTwo Prescriptions in a Treatise Attributed to Isaac IsraeliLola Ferre21 Aristotle’s Parts of Animals in HebrewSome Terminological ObservationsResianne Fontaine22 Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological PotpourriA New Witness to Late Byzantine Therapeutics and Its Expansion through Appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin Medical TraditionsPetros Bouras-VallianatosPart4 Romance Languages23 Altsüdiberoromanisch in hebräischem GewandEin Beitrag zum Verständnis mittelalterlicher jüdischer medizinisch-botanischer Glossare und Synonymenlisten und zu den romanischen Varietäten von Al-AndalusGuido Mensching24 “Duck Tales”The Hidden Stories of Andalusi Romance Bird NamesMailyn Lübke25 Testi mediolatini sull’aqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano dell’ayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAOMaria Sofia Corradini26 Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval SpainNorman RothIndex of Personal Names of Pre-modern AuthorsIndex of Geographical NamesIndex of Titles of Pre-modern BooksIndex of Biblical and Quranic ReferencesIndex of Topics and Terms