The "Meteorological" Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaon
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The "Meteorological" Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaon
Original language description
Some of the key elements of the so-called meteorological interpretation of the biblical creation narrative that we encounter in the works of medieval Jewish philosophers can be traced back to Syriac sources and ultimately to John Philoponus’ treatise on the creation of the world. Philoponus argued that the words “water,” “firmament,” and “heavens” were used equivocally in the biblical text and that the creation narrative can be understood in terms of meteorological processes. Philoponus’ tract was utilized by Jacob of Edessa, whose Syriac work on creation was probably one of the sources of Da’ūd al-Muqammaṣ’s Judeo-Arabic commentary on the creation narrative. Saadia Gaon and Jacob al-Qirqisānī drew Philoponian ideas from al-Muqammaṣ’s work and transmitted them to later generations of Jewish exegetes.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Aleph-Historical Studies in Science & Judaism
ISSN
1565-1525
e-ISSN
1565-5423
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
70
Pages from-to
209-278
UT code for WoS article
000892539500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85128688481