Overview: In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the UnitedStates, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic,Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gatheredtogether at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for aninternational conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of scienceand philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to exploreand define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of themedieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book,the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of
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