In memoriam Shlomo Sela (9.I.1948–26.VII.2022) Reminiscences about a Remarkable Scholar
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In memoriam Shlomo Sela (9.I.1948–26.VII.2022).
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References
I. Shlomo Sela’s Brill Series, Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings
Abraham Ibn Ezra, The Book of Reasons: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2007 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 35).
— The Book of the World: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2010 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 39).
— On Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 Versions), and the Book of the Luminaries, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2011 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 50).
— On Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Nativities and the Book of Revolution, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2014 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 59).
— Introductions to Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom and the Book of the Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2017 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 69).
Abrahm Ibn Ezra Latinus on Nativities: A Parallel Latin-English Critical Edition of Liber Nativitatum and Liber Abraham Iudei de Nativitatibus, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2019 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 78).
— on Elections and Interrogations: A Parallel Latin-English Critical Edition of Liber Electionum, Liber Interrogationum, and Tractatus Particulares, ed. Shlomo Sela, Brill, Leiden 2020 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 83).
— Henry Bate’s Latin Versions of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, With English Translation and a Collation with the Hebrew and French Source Texts, Brill, Leiden 2022 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 93/1).
— Henry Bate’s Latin Versions of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, With English Translation and a Collation with the Hebrew and French Source Texts, Brill, Leiden 2022 (Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 93/2).
II. Books by Shlomo Sela
The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher: Henry Bate’s Nativitas (1280–81), ed. by Carlos Steel, Steven Vanden Broecke, David Juste, Shlomo Sela, Leuven University Press, Leuven 2018 (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, 1).
Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Rise of Medieval Hebrew Science, Brill, Leiden 2003; reprint, 2021 (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies, 32).
Astrology and Biblical Exegesis in the Thought of Abraham Ibn Ezra [Hebrew], Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat – Gan 1999.
III. Articles
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Corpus » [Hebrew], in Dov Schwartz (ed.), Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra. Renaissance Man, Idra Press, Tel Aviv 2023, p. 110–128.
« A Hitherto Unknown Translation by Abraham Ibn Ezra of a Treatise by Abū Maʿshar: Edition of the French Translation by Hagin le Juif and English Translation », Aleph, 22 (2022), p. 9–38.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Scholarly Writings: An Update », Aleph, 22 (2022), p. 287–300.
« The Impact of Hagin le Juif’s French Translations on Subsequent Latin Translations of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings », The Jewish Quarterly Review, 111 (2021), p. 55–82.
(with Carlos Steel, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, David Juste, Charles Burnett) « A Newly Discovered Treatise by Abraham Ibn Ezra and Two Treatises Attributed to Al-Kindī in a Latin Translation by Henry Bath », Mediterranea: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 5 (2020), p. 193–305.
« Henry Bate, Translator of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings », Aleph, 20 (2020), p. 103–201.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra as the Translator of Astrological and Astronomical Texts from Arabic into Hebrew: Sources and Methods », Medieval Encounters, 25 (2019), p. 345–380.
« World Astrology in Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Work », Quaestio, 19 (Stars, Kingdoms, Beliefs, and Masses. Political Astrology in the Mediterranean Area from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance) (2019), p. 51–81.
« The Abraham Ibn Ezra–Peter of Limoges Astrological-Exegetical Connection », Aleph, 19 (2019), p. 9–57.
« Pietro d’Abano, Translator of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings », Sefarad, 79/1 (2019), p. 7–87.
« What is Tractatus Particulares, A Four-Part Work Assigned to Abraham Ibn Ezra? A Study of its Sources and General Features », Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, 86 (2019), p. 141–195.
« Calculating Birth: Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Role in the Creation and Diffusion of the Trutina Hermetis », in Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Alessandra Foscati, Charles Burnett (eds.), Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World; European and Middle Eastern Cultures, From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2019, p. 79–106.
« Origins and Transmission of Liber Abraham Iudei de Nativitatibus: A New Appraisal Based on Manuscript Evidence and Other Sources », Revue des études juives, 177 (2018), p. 317–352.
« Gersonides’ Astrology and Abraham Ibn Ezra », Aleph, 17 (2017), p. 251–333.
« The Ibn Ezra–Henry Bate Astrological Connection and the Three Abrahams », Mediterranea: International Journal for the Transfer of Knowledge, 2 (2017), p. 163–186.
« Chapter 17 of Ḥešbon Mahalakhot ha-Kokhavim by Abraham Bar Ḥiyya –The First Hebrew Catalog of Constellations, Fixed Stars and Lunar Mansions: Critical Edition, English Translation and Commentary », Suhayl: International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation, 15 (2016–2017), p. 231–296.
« Al-Farghānī on the 48 Ptolemaic Constellations: A Newly Discovered Text in Hebrew Translation », Aleph, 16 (2016), p. 249–365.
« O corpus científico de Abraão ibn Ezra », in Rosalie Helena de Souza Pereira (ed.), Na Senda Da Razão:Filosofia e Ciência no Medievo Judaico, Perspectiva, São Paulo 2016, p. 219–278.
« Nationality, Religious Belief, Geographical Identity, and Sociopolitical Awareness in Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Thought », in Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Molly Jones-Lewis (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds, Routledge, London and New York 2016, p. 266–280.
« Biblical Stars in Medieval Jewish Thought (tenth–twelfth centuries) », Journal of Jewish Studies, 66 (2015), p. 317–340.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Interpretation of Astrology according to the Two Versions of the Book of Reasons », in Charles Burnett, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, (eds.), From Māshā᾿allāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice of Astrology in Medieval and the Renaissance Astrology, Sophia Centre Press, Lampeter 2015, p. 455–471.
« The Astrological-Astronomical Encyclopedia in MS Paris 1058 », Aleph, 14 (2014), p. 189–241.
« A Newly Identified Essay on Anniversary Horoscopy Embedded in Abraham Bar Ḥiyya’s Astronomical Tables: Hebrew Edition, Translation and Commentary », Aleph, 13 (2013), p. 27–76.
« Maimonides and Māshā᾿allāh on the Ninth Orb of the Signs and Astrology », Aleph, 12 (2012), p. 101–134.
« El corpus astrológico hebreo de Abraham ibn Ezra », Iberia Judaica, 4 (2012), p. 151–169.
« Astrology in Medieval Jewish Thought (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries) », in Gad Freudenthal (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, p. 292–300.
« A Fragment From an Unknown Redaction of Reʾšit Ḥoḵmah by Abraham Ibn Ezra », Aleph, 10 (2010), p. 43–66.
(with Amparo Alba and Carlos Sainz de la Maza) « La obra astrológica de Abraham ibn Ezra en dos códices castellanos », Sefarad, 70 (2010), p. 375–398.
« Sefer ha-Tequfah: An Unknown Treatise on Anniversary Horoscopy by Abraham Ibn Ezra », Aleph, 9 (2009), p. 241–254.
(with Renate Smithuis) « Two Hebrew Fragments from Unknown Redactions of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Sefer ha-Mivḥarim and Sefer ha-Šeʾelot », Aleph, 9 (2009), p. 225–240.
« Dos textos astrológicos conservados en el comentario al Sefer Yeṣirá de Yehudá ben Barzilay al-Bargeloní », Sefarad, 68 (2008), p. 261–290.
« The Creation of the Superlunary World According to a Comparative Study of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Two Commentaries on Genesis 1:14 » [Hebrew], Beit Mikra: Journal for the Study of the Bible and Its World, 52 (2007), p. 130–163.
(with Gad Freudenthal), « Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Scholarly Writings: A Chronological Listing », Aleph, 6 (2006), p. 13–55.
« Abraham Bar Ḥiyya’s Astrological Work and Thought », Jewish Studies Quarterly, 12 (2005), p. 128–158.
« Queries on Astrology Sent from Southern France to Maimonides: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text, Translation and Commentary », Aleph, 4 (2004), p. 89–190.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Appropriation of Saturn », Kabbalah, 10 (2004), p. 21–53.
« Sociography of a Mediterranean Society » [Hebrew], in Yaacov Shavit (ed.), A Mediterranean Anthology, Yedioth Ahronoth Books, Tel Aviv 2004, p. 246–260.
« La creación del mundo supralunar según Abraham Ibn Ezra: un estudio comparativo de sus dos comentarios a Génesis », Sefarad, 63 (2003), p. 147–182.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Special Strategy in the Creation of a Hebrew Scientific Terminology », Micrologus, Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, 9 (2001), p. 65–87.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological-Cosmological Exegesis » [Hebrew], Daat: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah, 17 (2001), p. 5–34.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra Special Approach to the Creation of a Hebrew Scientific Terminology » [Hebrew], Zemanim, 73 (2001), p. 10–18.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Scientific Corpus – Basic Constituents and General Characterization », Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 10 (2001), p. 91–149.
« The Fuzzy Borders between Astronomy and Astrology as Reflected in the Thought and Work of Three Twelfth-Century Jewish Intellectuals », Aleph, 1 (2001), p. 59–100.
« Encyclopedic Aspects of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Scientific Corpus », in Steven Harvey (ed.), The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2000, p. 154–170.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Linguistic Metamorphosis of the term Mishpeṭei ha-Mazzalot » ]Hebrew[, in Moshe Garsiel, Shmuel Vargon, Amos Frisch, Jacob Kugel (eds.), Studies in Bible and Exegesis, Vol. V – Presented to Uriel Simon, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan 2000, p. 271–294.
« El papel de Abraham Ibn Ezra en la divulgación de los ‘juicios’ de la astrología en la lengua hebrea y latina », Sefarad, 59, (1999), p. 159–194.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Book on the Reasons Behind Astronomical Tables in its Latin and Hebrew Versions » [Hebrew], Asufot, 11 (1998), p. 9–50.
« Puntos de contacto entre contenidos del Libro de las Tablas astronómicas en su versión latina y las obras literarias hebreas de Abraham Ibn Ezra », Miscelanea de Estudios Arabes y Hebraicos, 46 (1997), p. 37–56.
« Contactos científicos entre judíos y cristianos en el siglo XII: El caso del Libro de las Tablas astronómicas de Abraham Ibn Ezra en su versión latina y hebrea », Miscelanea de Estudios Arabes y Hebraicos, 45 (1996), p. 185–222.
IV. Encyclopedia Entries
« Abraham Ibn Ezra », in Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, Leiden–Boston, 2019, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24704> (Accessed December 2022).
« Abraham Ibn Ezra », in David Biale (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, 2014, <https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0042.xml?rskey=kiXugk&result=1&q=ibn+ezra#firstMatch> (Accessed December 2022).
« Hebrew Science in Medieval Ages », in Houari Touati (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism, 2015, <http://www.encyclopedie-humanisme.com/?Hebrew-Science-in-Medieval-Ages> (Accessed December 2022).
« Astronomical Terminology: Medieval Period », in Geoffrey Khan, Shmuel Bolozky, Steven E. Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2013, p. 226–228.
« Abraham Bar Ḥiyya », in Judith R. Baskin (ed.), Judaism & Jewish Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, p. 2.
« Astrology », in Judith R. Baskin (ed.), Judaism & Jewish Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, p. 44–45.
« Abraham Ibn Ezra », in Thomas F. Glick (ed.), Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, New York 2005 (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages), p. 247–250.
« Abraham Bar Ḥiyya », in Thomas F. Glick (ed.), Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, New York 2005 (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages), p. 2–4.
V. Book Reviews
Abraham Ibn Ezra, Sefer haʿibbur: A Treatise on the Calendar by Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, trans. by Mordechai S. Goodman, KTAV Publishing House, Jersey City 2011, in H-Judaic (2012), https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=33189 (Accessed December 2022).
Mariano Gómez Aranda, Dos comentarios de Abraham Ibn Ezra al libro de Ester, Edición crítica, traducción y estudio introductorio, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 2007, in Hispania Judaica, Bulletin, 6 (2009), p. 295–297.
Dov Schwartz, Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought, Brill, Leiden 2004 (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 20), in Sefarad, 66 (2006), p. 226–228.
Dov Schwartz, Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought, Brill, Leiden 2004 (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 20), in Journal of Jewish Studies, 57 (2006), p. 182–184.
Dov Schwartz, Qamiʿot, segulot ve-sekhaltanut ba-hagut ha-yehudit be-yeme ha-beinaym (Amulets, Properties and Rationalism in Medieval Jewish Thought), Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan 2004, in Sefarad, 64 (2004), p. 443–445.
Mariano Gómez Aranda, El comentario de Abraham Ibn Ezra al libro de Job, Edición crítica, traducción y estudio introductorio, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid 2004, in Sefarad, 64 (2004), p. 424–426.