IBN ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL II
- IBN ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL II
- IBN ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL II (13th century),
religious writer, probably a resident of Spain; to be distinguished from
judah ben samuel ibn abbas , the liturgical poet. In the middle of
the 13th century Ibn Abbas composed Ya'ir Nativ
("Enlightener of the Path"), also known as Shevet Yehudah
("Judah's Staff "), a moral treatise, which reflects the influence of
maimonides , and which the author claims to have written at the
age of 20. The work is extant in manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library,
Ms. Bodl. 44). Chapter 15 of this work, which has been printed and
translated into German by M. Guedemann (see bibl.), contains pedagogical
instructions. According to Ibn Abbas, the student should begin with the
study of Bible and Talmud, proceed to the study of ethics and the
sciences – medicine, logic, astronomy, and physics, in that order – and
finally to the study of metaphysics. Ibn Abbas also lists the
outstanding works that he recommends for the study of the various
sciences. For example, he suggests that in order to learn the principles
of logic the student read the works of Al-Farābī and
averroes (A. Hyman, in: Actes du quatrièmecongrès
international de philosophie médiévale (1969), 102). This list
indicates which authors the Jews of the 13th century regarded
as authoritative in the sciences. Ibn Abbas also wrote Minḥat
Yehudah, or Mekor Ḥayyim (Ms. Bodl. 44; J.H. Loewe,
A Descriptive Catalogue… Louis Loewe (1895), 59).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen, 35; M. Guedemann, Das juedische
Unterrichtswesen waehrend der spanisch-arabischen Periode (1873),
147–55 (Ger. sect.), 58–62 (Heb. sect.).
(Isaak Dov Ber Markon)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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