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The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.

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Contents Introduction The Author Literary Activity Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Source(s) of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Critical Edition of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim Supplements Text and Translation Supplement A: Comparative Table Supplement B:The Ko’a.h ha-Avanim in Its French Context: Romance and Latin Terms and Sources Introduction Lexicological Commentary on the Romance and Latin Terms Berakhyah’s Sources Tables of the Sources Alphabetical Glossaries Hebrew—French/Latin/Greek Glossary French/Latin—Hebrew Glossary Greek—Hebrew Glossary

Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Sefer Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones). Hebrew Text and English Translation: With a Lexicological Analysis of the Romance Terminology and Source Study

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 03/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9789004183100, 978-9004183100
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      Book Synopsis
      The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.

      Table of Contents
      Contents Introduction The Author Literary Activity Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Source(s) of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Critical Edition of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim Supplements Text and Translation Supplement A: Comparative Table Supplement B:The Ko’a.h ha-Avanim in Its French Context: Romance and Latin Terms and Sources Introduction Lexicological Commentary on the Romance and Latin Terms Berakhyah’s Sources Tables of the Sources Alphabetical Glossaries Hebrew—French/Latin/Greek Glossary French/Latin—Hebrew Glossary Greek—Hebrew Glossary

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