Introduction. Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan and His Works

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.5.117461" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.5.117461</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Introduction. Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan and His Works

Original language description

Berechiah was probably born in Northern France in the 1120s, 1130s, or 1140s. In his youth he was interested in natural sciences, philosophy, and perhaps in magic. He was familiar with the biblical commentaries of Abraham Ibn Ezra whom he may have met in the 1150s or 1160s. Nevertheless, one of Ibn Ezra’s major fields of interest, namely astrology does not play any role in his writings, so he was apparently not interested in it. At an early stage of his career, in the late 1150s or in the 1160s, Berechiah wrote two books on the basis of Anglo-Norman sources: the lapidary and the Adelard-paraphrase. Sometimes, perhaps after 1161, he migrated to Provence and got connected to Meshullam ben Jacob’s circle in Lunel. There he read Judah Ibn Tibbon’s recent Hebrew translations of Judeo-Arabic literature and also a work by Abraham ben David of Posquierres, and possibly Joseph Kimhi’s commentary on Job. He composed Musar and Matzref in Provence and dedicated them to Meshullam prior to the latter’s death in 1170. Berechiah also mastered the “metric” poetry of the Andalusians in Provence and may have been exposed to further cultural and linguistic influences coming from the Andalusian refugees recently settled in Provence. Afterwards he returned to the North. He composed the Mishlei Shu‘alim and possibly the commentary on Job in Normandy during the 1180s or 1190s. He got married and had a son called Elijah at this time. The poems about death he composed either in Provence or later, in Northern France. He passed away perhaps by 1200, and certainly by ca. 1215 the latest.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-19686S" target="_blank" >GA14-19686S: Hebrew and Latin literary exchanges in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Berekhiah ben Natronay ha-Nakdan and his reception</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan’s Works and Their Reception L’oeuvre de Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Naqdan et sa réception

ISBN

978-2-503-58365-5

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

7-28

Number of pages of the book

254

Publisher name

Brepols Publishers

Place of publication

Turnhout

UT code for WoS chapter

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