Jakob ben Abba Mari Anatoli

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Jakob ben Abba Mari Anatoli († 1256 ) was a doctor from Provence who was active in the 13th century and who practiced philosophy . Under Frederick II he worked in Naples as a translator from Arabic . As an avid Maimonides follower, he wrote philosophical-allegorizing homilies on the Pentateuch ( malmad ha-talmidim ). His most important works include translations of texts by Averroes .

literature

  • Israel Bettan: Jacob Anatoli, A Thirteenth Century Liberal . In: I. Bettan: Studies in Jewish Preaching, Middle Ages . Cincinatty 1939, pp. 49-88.
  • Israel Bettan: The Sermons of Jacob Anatoli . In: Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA), 11, 1936, pp. 391-424.
  • Umberto (Moses David) Cassuto: Anatoli, Jacob Ben Abba Mari Ben Samson . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 2 (2007), p. 132 f.
  • Jeremy Cohen: The Friars and the Jews. The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism . Ithaca NY 1932, pp. 229-236.
  • HG Enelow: Jakob ben Abba Mari Anatoli . In: Jewish Encyclopedia , Volume 1, 1911, pp. 562-564.
  • Martin L. Gordon: The Rationalism of Jacob Anatoli . Diss. Yeshiva University, New York 1974.
  • Adolf Neubauer , Ernest Renan : Les Rabbins français du commencement du quatorzième siècle . Paris 1887, pp. 580-589.
  • Cecil Roth : Jews in the Renaissance . Philadelphia 1959, pp. 67-80.
  • Marc Saperstein: Jewish Preaching 1200-1800. An Anthology . New Haven / London 1999, pp. 15 f., 111-123.
  • Marc Saperstein: Christians and Christianity in the Sermons of Jacob Anatoli . In: Jewish History , 6 / 1–2, 1992, pp. 225–242 ( JSTOR 20101130 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatoli, Jacob . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-Androphagi . London 1910, p. 920 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
personal data
SURNAME Jakob ben Abba Mari Anatoli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish philosopher and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 1256