The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth
Andrew D. Berns
Language: English
Pages: 309
ISBN: 1107065542
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores the reciprocal relationship between biblical interpretation and natural philosophy in sixteenth-century Italy. The book augments our knowledge of the manifold applications of medical expertise in the Renaissance and of the multiple ways in which the Bible was read by educated people who lacked theological training. Andrew D. Berns demonstrates that many physicians in sixteenth-century Italy, Jewish and Christian alike, took a keen interest in the Bible and postbiblical religious literature. Berns identifies the intellectual tools that Renaissance doctors and natural philosophers brought to bear on their analysis of the Bible and assesses how their education and professional experience helped them acquire, develop, and use those tools. The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy argues that the changing nature of medical culture in the Renaissance inspired physicians to approach the Bible not only as a divine work but also as a historical and scientific text.
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Inspired physicians to approach the Bible not only as a divine work but also as a historical and scientific text. Andrew D. Berns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth Andrew D. Berns University of South Carolina 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usa Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the.
Generation earlier. Aldrovandi’s first entry treats agalochum as a geographic place; his second examines it as a botanical product. In the preliminary entry, Aldrovandi defines the term with the Hebrew word egel and speculates that agalochum might be the name of a region where aloe wood – the featured product in Amatus’s debate with Münster – comes from. He also notes that it is a “most celebrated” medicinal product and posits that “agallim,” a cognate term, is a place mentioned in Isaiah,.
Not from a scientific text but rather from the Bible. This wood was “lauded greatly by Ezekiel the prophet in the thirty-first chapter.” Among the verses Aldrovandi cites is Ezekiel 31:3, which reads “therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters when it shot forth.”97 This description of the cedar’s majesty is vague on the specific curative properties of that wood. But for.
Your brother.”89 As was the case with many of his other writings, Bibliologia was dedicated to Gabriele.90 Even though Aldrovandi undertook many of his most colorful explorations of the Bible’s natural world at the urging of two powerful clergymen in Bologna, he also indicated in side comments that a broader and more extensive group bore responsibility for Bibliologia’s genesis. “I am extremely busy and have no leisure time,” Aldrovandi lamented, “distracted on the one hand by my private and.
And Medicine, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1944), 2:551–612, esp. 582–9. Friedenwald includes a facsimile reproduction of Gregory XIII’s bull between pages 550 and 551 and provides an English translation on pages 584–6. 1 A portion of this chapter previously appeared as “Abraham Portaleone and Alessandro Magno: Jewish and Christian Correspondents on a Monstrous Birth,” European Journal of Jewish Studies 5:1 (2011): 53–66. 153 154 The Bible and Natural Philosophy in.