This book describes in detail the vicissitudes of Jewish life in the eastern Mediterranean area, showing how Jews were affected by the political, religious, and economic turmoil of the times. Sharf offers a link between the better-known history of the Jews of the Roman Empire and that of the Greek and Turkish communities of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Byzantine Jewry from Justinian to the Fourth Crusade (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

History

Sharf, Andrew

World

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

<p>This book describes in detail the vicissitudes of Jewish life in the eastern Mediterranean area, showing how Jews were affected by the political, religious, and economic turmoil of the times. Sharf offers a link between the better-known history of the Jews of the Roman Empire and that of the Greek and Turkish communities of the 15th and 16th centuries.</p>

Byzantine Jewry: from Justinian to the fourth Crusade (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Routledge & K.Paul

The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo

<p>Shabbetai Donnolo was a Jewish doctor born in Southern Italy in 913 AD when it was part of the Byzantine Empire. He is best known as the author of a herbal and traditionally as one of the founders of Europe's first medical school at Salerno. However, his medical reputation has overshadowed his cosmological writings, the most important of which is his Sefer Hakhmoni , a title implying Wisdom. As pharmacy and medicine in the tenth century were inextricably interwoven with astrology and cosmology Donnolo sets out his idea of a divinely created universe, with man in the image of God, based on a synthesis of contemporary thought. Professor Sharf shows how Donnolo's cosmology is a striking blend of his mystical inheritance from the Judaism of his birth, the Christian culture of his homeland and the Islamic astronomy which he studied, with the down-to-earth, plain and practical mind of the doctor.</p>

Aris & Phillips

Shabbetai Donnolo was a Jewish doctor born in Southern Italy in 913 AD when it was part of the Byzantine Empire. He is best known as the author of a herbal and traditionally as one of the founders of Europe's first medical school at Salerno. However, his medical reputation has overshadowed his cosmological writings, the most important of which is his  Sefer Hakhmoni , a title implying Wisdom. As pharmacy and medicine in the tenth century were inextricably interwoven with astrology and cosmology Donnolo sets out his idea of a divinely created universe, with man in the image of God, based on a synthesis of contemporary thought. Professor Sharf shows how Donnolo's cosmology is a striking blend of his mystical inheritance from the Judaism of his birth, the Christian culture of his homeland and the Islamic astronomy which he studied, with the down-to-earth, plain and practical mind of the doctor.

The universe of Shabbetai Donnolo

Ktav Pub. House

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Byzantine Jewry from Justinian to the Fourth Crusade (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Byzantine Jewry: from Justinian to the fourth Crusade (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo

The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo

The universe of Shabbetai Donnolo