Format:
XIV, 617 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
25 cm.
ISBN:
0-691-03290-4
Series Statement:
Princeton legacy library
Note:
Contents: Biblical Figures as Alchemists -- Alchemy in Bible and Talmud? -- The Hellenistic Age -- Jews in Hellenistic Alchemy -- Maria the Jewess -- Zosimus on Maria the Jewess -- The Early Arab World -- Abufalah's Alchemy -- A Hebrew Version of the Book of Alums and Salts -- Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid -- The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries -- Artephius -- The Great Jewish Philosophers -- Kabbalah and Alchemy: A Reconsideration -- The Fourteenth Century -- Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist -- The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew -- Flamel's Jewish Masters -- Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists -- Abraham Eleazar -- Themo Judaei -- The Fifteenth Century -- Simeon ben Semah Duran -- Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master -- Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica -- Isaac Hollandus and His Son John Isaac -- Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo -- Pseudo-Maimonides -- Three Kuzari Commentators -- The Sixteenth Century -- Esh Msaref: A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise -- Taitazak and Provencali -- Hayyim Vital, Alchemist -- An Alchemical Miscellany -- Labi, Hamawi, and Portaleone -- The Manchester (John Rylands) Manuscript -- The Seventeenth Century -- Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah -- Four Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts -- Benjamin Mussafia -- Benjamin Jesse -- The Eighteenth Century -- Hayyim Shmuel Falck -- The Comte de Saint-Germain -- Jacob Emden; de Bar Ilan Manuscript -- The Nineteenth Century -- An Alchemical Manuscript from Jerba -- Mordecai Abi Serour -- Conclusion: A Profile of Jewish Alchemy
Language:
German
Subjects:
Chemistry/Pharmacy
,
Ethnology
,
Theology
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Juden
;
Alchemist
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/93035687.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/93035687.html
Author information:
Patai, Raphael 1910-1996
