Biblical stars in medieval Jewish thought (tenth-twelfth centuries)

The twelfth century witnessed a new Jewish interest in the fixed stars, which finds its major expression in the first-ever Hebrew lists of constellations and fixed stars. These are in fact translations into Hebrew of Arabic lists, which ultimately go back to the star catalogue in Ptolemy"s Alma...

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Main Author: Selaʿ, Shelomoh 1948- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Liverpool University Press [2015]
In: The journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-340
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Middle Ages
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
TE Middle Ages
TG High Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Seʿadyah Gaʾon (882-942)
B Arabic names
B Stars Religious aspects
B Bible. Altes Testament Biblia Hebraica
B Stars Names
B Transliteration
B Ibn-ʿEzra, Avraham Ben-Meʾir (1092-1167)
B Avraham bar-Ḥiyya ha-Naśi (1065-1136)
B Ptolemy, Claudius 100-178
B Asterisms (Astronomy)
B Astronomy