"Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics"--
Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Publications by Gerrit Bos
Contents of the Volume
Part1 Philosophy, Theology, and Religion
1 Eine mutazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem
Hirngespinst oder literarische Gestaltung?
Hans Daiber
2 Alfarabi on Divine Attributes
Catarina Belo
3 A Land Ripe for Conquest
An Amorite Parallel to the Biblical Story of the Spies
Nathan Wasserman and Yigal Bloch
4 The Ambiguity of Jewishness
Reflections on a Basic Concept of Jewish Studies
Philipp Lenhard
5 Non-linear Paths of Transmission
The First Written Reactions to the Recorded Oral Teachings on the
Kabbalistic Intentions of Prayer
Daniel Abrams
6 The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative Act
The Scribe, Eternal Pen Pusher or Skilled Practitioner?
Dan Levene
7 Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward
Prolegomenon to a Scriptural Conversation between the Qurn and the Book of
Mormon
D.Morgan Davis
Part2 Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences
8 Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical Metaphors
Samuel Kottek and Helena Paavilainen
9 Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and Medicine
Vivian Nutton
10 Fürs Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz!
Zur frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Überlieferung von De succedaneis
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
11 Un terminus ante quem pour la rédaction de la pharmacopée célčbre de Sbr
ibn Sahl (m. 255/869)
Oliver Kahl
12 Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn umais Abhandlung über den Schwindel
Fabian Käs
13 Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black Seed
Remke Kruk
14 Galen in the Guideand beyond
LennE. Goodman
15 Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian Talmud
Theodore Kwasman
16 Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the Yemen
Y.Tzvi Langermann
Part3 Occidental Reception
17 The Name of the Thief
An Episode in the Transmission of Arabic Letters to the West
Charles Burnett
18 A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture
Magister Maynus of Réalmont (1304)
Michael McVaugh and Joseph Shatzmiller
19 Maimonides als Vorbild
Hebräische Kommentare zu AphorismusI:1
Carsten Schliwski
20 Epithymum for Melancholy
Two Prescriptions in a Treatise Attributed to Isaac Israeli
Lola Ferre
21 Aristotles Parts of Animals in Hebrew
Some Terminological Observations
Resianne Fontaine
22 Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological Potpourri
A New Witness to Late Byzantine Therapeutics and Its Expansion through
Appropriations from the Islamicate and Latin Medical Traditions
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Part4 Romance Languages
23 Altsüdiberoromanisch in hebräischem Gewand
Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis mittelalterlicher jüdischer
medizinisch-botanischer Glossare und Synonymenlisten und zu den romanischen
Varietäten von Al-Andalus
Guido Mensching
24 Duck Tales
The Hidden Stories of Andalusi Romance Bird Names
Mailyn Lübke
25 Testi mediolatini sullaqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano
dellayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAO
Maria Sofia Corradini
26 Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain
Norman Roth
Index of Personal Names of Pre-modern Authors
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Titles of Pre-modern Books
Index of Biblical and Quranic References
Index of Topics and Terms
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.
