Judah Ben Yehiel
Judah ben Yehiel the doctor ( Hebrew : "said is a rabbi, physician and philosopher Italian of the fifteenth century (c. 1422 - c. 1498 ).
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Judah ben Yehiel was born in Montecchio Maggiore , in the present province of Vicenza , in Veneto. Son of a doctor, he studied medicine himself, while pursuing a traditional Jewish curriculum. He was ordained rabbi and physician to graduate 23 years. According to tradition, the honorary title of Messer (Serro million) is conferred by the Emperor Frederick III , during the first visit of the emperor in Italy in 1452, perhaps to assign it to its service. As for the name Leon is a conventional equivalent of Judah, the lion is the emblem of the Tribe of Judah Work Messer Leon's work, which absorb and embody the intellectual approach of the best Italian universities at the time, while integrating the intellectual culture of the Jewish tradition, reveal a hakham kolel ("wise head"), Jewish equivalent of the universal spirit of the Renaissance. Besides philosophical commentaries for a private club, he is known for three books circulating more broadly to address the three fundamental issues of education during the Renaissance, trivium , namely grammar, logic and rhetoric. Messer Leon wrote commentaries on the classics of Aristotelian philosophy, whose Organon , the Nicomachean Ethics and Physics, and their interpretation by Averroes. It follows the style and method of the Scholastics , calling for its students sefequot ("summary") on quaestiones (that is to say the points of apparent contradiction text) discussed by the Italian academic community . Messer Leon's comment on the Vetus Logica has been the thesis of Isaac Husik in 1906. The three subjects of the trivium, control before any study above, such as science or medicine, have been the subject of three textbooks, Livnat hasappir ("Sapphire Stone") on the Hebrew grammar, the Mikhlal Yofi ("Perfection of beauty ") on logic, in 1455, and especially the Nofet Tzoufim (Suc-ray Philosophical Reviews
hasappir Livnat, Mikhlal Yofi and Nofet Tzoufim
The book has been new editions , including a translated and annotated in 1983 .
References
- a , b and c Norbert Normand Reading: Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon , accessed on 12/11/2009
- Zonta P. 210, citing Tirosh-Rothschild
- Rossi in Me'or 'Enayim ch. ii., ed. Benjacob, i. 75, Wilna, 1863
- A. Geiger, Melo Chofnajim, P. 19, Berlin, 1840.
- (he) Judah Messer Leon, Nofet Zufim, On Hebrew Rhetoric, facsimile edition 1475, with an introduction by Robert Bonfil, Magnes Press, Jerusalem 1981.
- (en) Judah Messer Leon, Isaac Rabinowitz (trans.), The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow, Sepher Nopheth Suphim, Cornell University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-8014-0870-9
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External Links
- Husik Isaac, Judah Messer Leon's Commentary on the "Vetus Logica" , Leiden: Brill, 1906
Bibliography
- Hava Tirosh-Rothschild, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon, pp. 25-33. State University of New York Press, 1991. ISBN 0-7914-0447-1
- Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman (eds.), History of Jewish Philosophy, pp. 514-515. London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-08064-9
- Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, pp. 403-4. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-521-39727-8
- Mauro Zonta, Hebrew scholasticism In The Fifteenth Century: A History And Source Book, ch. 4, Springer, 2006. ISBN 1-4020-3715-5.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906, article "Messer Leon (Judah ben Jehiel Rofe)" by Gotthard Deutsch , a publication now in the public domain.
- (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Judah Messer Leon (15th century) "(see the list of authors )
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