The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source BookPrinceton University Press, 2014 M07 14 - 634 páginas In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. |
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... Jews played in the history of alchemy is reminiscent of the scholarly position on Jewish mysticism a hundred years ago . At that time - only a generation or two removed from the Haskalah , the Jewish Enlightenment -- Jewish schol- ars ...
... Jewish work in alchemy . Even though the actual extent of Jewish alchemical work has been un- known , and there has existed no inventory of alchemical manuscripts written by Jews , nor even a study of references to alchemy found in ...
... Jews who take part in real chemistry just as they took a great part in the study of alchemy earlier " " In the late 1920s two Jewish encyclopedias were published in Ger- man The smaller of them , titled Judisches Lexikon ( 5 vols ...
... alchemy , is incorrect . Alchemy is neither a Jewish science nor a Jewish art . . . . While alchemic literature runs into thousands of volumes , there is no original work in this field in Hebrew literature . It seems , therefore , that ...
... alchemy with a highly prestigious , and religiously impeccable , ancestry . The next chapter will deal with the biblical figures whom later alchemists regarded as adepts , in fact , as founders of alchemy and recipients of its great ...