The Book of Reasons : : a parallel Hebrew-English critical edition of the two versions of the text / / Abraham Ibn Ezra ; edited, translated, and annotated by Shlomo Sela.

• Superior document: Etudes sur le judaisme medieval, t. 35
• Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir, 1092-1167.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sela, Shlomo.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; t. 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Sefer ha-ṭeʻamim.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281926469; 9786611926465; 9047421574; 9789004157644
• ISSN: 0169-815X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Abraham Ibn Ezra ; edited, translated, and annotated by Shlomo Sela.

From the Middle Ages until the present, the development of astrology among Jews was associated mainly with the name of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167). His scientific corpus deals with mathematics, astronomy, scientific instruments and tools, and the Jewish calendar; but especially with astrology. This volume is the first product of a larger enterprise—a scientific edition of all twelve Ibn Ezra’s astrological treatises—and offers a critical Hebrew text of the two versions of Ibn Ezra’s Sefer ha-Te'amim , the Book of Reasons, accompanied by an annotated translation and commentary. The two treatises presented here were designed by Ibn Ezra to offer “reasons”, “explanations”, or “meanings” of the raw astrological concepts formulated in the introduction to astrology that Ibn Ezra entitled Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom).