A Key to Locked Doors : : Festschrift for Gerrit Bos on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday.

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; v.126
• Author: Käs, Fabian.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kley, Jessica.; Hedderich, Felix.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (700 pages)

In July 2023, Gerrit Bos (Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of Cologne) celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers dealing with various topics from the fields of Hebrew and Arabic studies.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Notes on Contributors and Editors -- ‎Publications by Gerrit Bos -- ‎Contents of the Volume -- ‎Part 1. Philosophy, Theology, and Religion -- ‎1. Eine muʿtazilitische Diskussion zum Theodizeeproblem (Daiber) -- ‎2. Alfarabi on Divine Attributes (Belo) -- ‎3. A Land Ripe for Conquest (Wasserman and Bloch) -- ‎4. The Ambiguity of Jewishness (Lenhard) -- ‎5. Non-linear Paths of Transmission (Abrams) -- ‎6. The Writing of a Magical Text as a Performative Act (Levene) -- ‎7. "Making towards Yemen, Then Eastward" (Davis) -- ‎Part 2. Ancient and Oriental Medicine and Sciences -- ‎8. Philo of Alexandria on Physicians and Medical Metaphors (Kottek and Paavilainen) -- ‎9. Loosening the Old School Tie: Nisibis and Medicine (Nutton) -- ‎10. Fürs Echte gibt es keinen Ersatz! (Fischer) -- ‎11. Un terminus ante quem pour la rédaction de la pharmacopée célèbre de Sābūr ibn Sahl (m. 255/869) (Kahl) -- ‎12. Pharmakognostisches aus Ibn Ǧumaiʿs Abhandlung über den Schwindel (Käs) -- ‎13. Herbal Lore as a Banner of Islamic Piety: Black Seed (Kruk) -- ‎14. Galen in the Guide-and beyond (Goodman) -- ‎15. Notes on Plant Names in the Babylonian Talmud (Kwasman) -- ‎16. Two Texts from a Judaeo-Arabic Alchemical Anthology from the Yemen (Langermann) -- ‎Part 3. Occidental Reception -- ‎17. The Name of the Thief (Burnett) -- ‎18. A Jew on the Edge of Latin Medical Culture (McVaugh and Shatzmiller) -- ‎19. Maimonides als Vorbild (Schliwski) -- ‎20. Epithymum for Melancholy (Ferre) -- ‎21. Aristotle's Parts of Animals in Hebrew (Fontaine) -- ‎22. Examining a Previously Unknown Pharmacological Potpourri (Bouras-Vallianatos) -- ‎Part 4. Romance Languages -- ‎23. Altsüdiberoromanisch in hebräischem Gewand (Mensching) -- ‎24. "Duck Tales" (Lübke).

‎25. Testi mediolatini sull'aqua vite e versioni in occitano e in catalano dell'ayga ardent con alcune note lessicali estratte dal DiTMAO (Corradini) -- ‎26. Medical Influences on Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain (Roth) -- ‎Personal Names of Pre-modern Authors -- ‎Geographical Names -- ‎Titles of Pre-modern Books -- ‎Biblical and Quranic References -- ‎Topics and Terms -- Back Cover.