Chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen [PDF]
, 2020 When a text is translated into another language and leaves its previous linguistic, cultural and social context, it also leaves its old audience behind. The new audience the text now faces has its own set of requirements, which may only partly overlap ...
Vagelpohl, Uwe
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An Evidence of a Syriac Version in an Arabic Recipe? Simple Medicines of a Recipe from the Anonymous Book of Medicines (MS BL OR. 9360) and from Dispensatorium Parvm [PDF]
, 2023 From the beginning of the Christian era and for one thousand six hundred years, pharmacobotanical knowledge from northern Europe to the Indian Ocean came mainly from Dioscorides (deceased c. 90 CE).
Asade, Daniel Julio +1 more
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Book Review: Greek Medical Literature and its Readers from Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium, edited by P. BOURAS -VALLIANATOS and S. XENOPHONTOS (Centre for Hellenic Studies, Kings’ College London), London 2018 [PDF]
, 2020 Book Review: Greek Medical Literature and its Readers from Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium, edited by P. Bouras -Vallianatos and S.
ΧΡΟΝΗ, Μαρία
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Histoire Épistémologie LangageThe article deals with the note on the history of the Greek language and the Greek script as found in the Kitāb al-Fihrist by Ibn an-Nadim. The author analyses the composition of the passage as well as the ways and methods applied to transcribe the Greek
Nikolaï I. Serikoff
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The Arabic Reception of Pagan Greek Poetry and Poets in the ʿAbbāsid Period [PDF]
, 2022 Il presente studio indaga le dinamiche di ricezione della poesia greca pagana in lingua araba durante l’epoca ʿabbāside, nel contesto del cosiddetto movimento di traduzione e della tradizione filosofico-letteraria che si sviluppò a partire da esso ...
ZARANTONELLO, MARIANNA
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]
, 2014 textThis paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus
Goodin, Katherine Sproul
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Transformation of Galen's Textual Legacy from Classical to Post-Classical Islamic Medicine:Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms [PDF]
, 2017 I assess Galen’s (d. ca. 216) textual legacy on Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. I show that early authors in this tradition employ exegetical strategies taken from Alexandrian exegetical models.
Karimullah, Kamran
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A CASE OF (GALENIC?) NATURAL ΠΝΕΥΜΑ IN A LATE-ANTIQUE HOMILY OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM? [PDF]
, 2022 The purpose of this article is to investigate evidence for a possible case of (Galenic?) natural πνεῦμα in John Chrysostom’s 39th homily on 1 Corinthians and its significance for tracing the development of a tripartite physiological pneumatology in late ...
de Wet, Chris L.
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From Myth to Science. A Short Survey on Heredity and Its Causes in Ancient Greece [PDF]
, 2016 In this contribution, I deal with the notion of \u201ccause\u201d concerning hereditary diseases in ancient Greece. A notion of hereditary disease is already foreshadowed in myths, where guilt is often depicted as a pathologic contamination (miasma ...
Provenza, Antonietta
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Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišoʿ, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban [PDF]
, 2021 Dawid bar Pawlos’ Letter on Dots is an eighth-century text that purportedly describes the introduction of some of the dots used in Syriac writing. It also sheds light on the life of a certain Rāmišoʿ of Beṯ Rabban, apparently the same man as the master ...
Posegay, Nicholas
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