Astrology

 

 

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General

 

Books

 

Admon, Bo'smat Sefer Mishpete Kokhavim: Astrologyah lefi ha-Yahadut (Hod ha Sharon: Astrolog, 1996)

 

Auth, Janos, Antik heber jovendolesek: heber axtrologia es a hosen jovendoles (Budapest: Statiqum, 1992)

 

Bakal, Meir, (ed.) Seder 12 ha-Mazalot (Jerusalem: Hotsa`at Bakal, 1994)

 

Berg, Philip S., Time Zones: Creating Order from Chaos (Richmond Hill, NY: Research Centre of Kabbalah, 1993)

 

Erlanger, Gad, Signs of the Times: the Zodiac in Jewish Tradition (New York, NY:  Feldheim, 2001)

 

Glazerson, Matityahu, Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought (Northvale, NJ: J. Aaronson, 1997)

 

Glazerson, Matityahu, En Mazal le-Yisrael (Israel: M. Glazerson, 1980, 1985)

 

Halbronn, Jacques, Le Monde Juif et L'astrologie: Historie d'un vieux couple (Milano: Arche, 1985, c1979)

 

Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir Le Livre des fondements astrologiues: (precede de) Le Commencement de la sapience des signes [introduction, traduction et notes de Jacques Halbronn] (Paris, Retz, 1977)

 

Jacob ben Mordecai, Shoshanat Ya`akov (1792)

 

Lahmi, G., L'astrologie hebraique (Paris: Lieu Commun, 1984)

 

Megilat Ta'anit: Baraita de-13 midot de-Rabi Yishma`ek.  Baraita di-Shmu'el Yarhina'ah. `Inyan ha-Tekufot (Israel: 1980)

 

Muentner, Z., Shabbetai Donnolo (Jerusalem: 1949)

 

Peniel, Shelomoh ben Avraham Or `Enayim (Jerusalem: E. Fisher, 1983)

 

Peniel, Solomon, Or `Enayim (1806)

 

Sefer ha-Levanah: the Book of the Moon (London: 1912)

 

Sefer Shemirah: Tefilot segulot u-refu'ot (Jerusalem: Y. Hasid, 1980?)

 

Solomon ben Isaac, Shene Sefarim Niftahim: Isur ver-Heter le-Rashi (1973)

 

Von Stuckrad, K., Frommigkeit und Wissenschaft: Astrologie in Tanach, Qumran, und fruhrabbinischer Literature (Europaische Hochschulschriften, series 23 Theologie, vol. 572; Frankfurt: Lang, 1996)

 

Wachter, Ludwig, Judischer und Christlicher Glaube: vier Vortrage (Stuttgart: Calwar Verlag, 1975)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Altmann, A., “Astrology,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jeruslaem: Keter, 1973), vol. 3, pp. 788-795

 

Berg, S.F., “A Stranger Among Us,” Kabbalah March-April (1997), 22-26

 

Blau, L., & Kohler, K., “Astrology,” Jewish Encyclopedia (NY: Fink & Wagnells, 1901-1905), vol. 2, pp. 241-245

 

Gandz, S., “The Origin of Planetary Week or the Planetary Week in Hebrew Literature,” PAAJR 18 (1948-9), 213-267 [=S. Gandz, Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics (NY: 1970), pp. 169-210]

 

Glasner, Ruth, "The Question of Celestial Matter in Hebrew Encyclopedias," in Steven   Harvey (ed.) The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 313-334

 

Greenfield, Jonas C., “The Names of the Zodiacal Signs in Aramaic and Hebrew,” in Rika Gyselen (ed.), Au Carrefour des Religions: Melanges Afferts a Phillipe Gignoux (Res Orientales, vol 7; Bures-sur-Yvette: 1995), pp. 95-103

 

Hachlili, R., “The Zodiac in Ancient Jewish Art: Representation and Significance,” BASOR 228 (1977), 61-77

 

Kafih, J., “The Order of the Stars and the Constellations and Events,” in J. Kafih, Essays, vol 1. (Jerusalem: 1988)

 

Low, L., “Die Astrologie dei den Juden,” in L. Low, Gesammelte Schriften von Leopold Low bd. 2 (Szegedin: 1890), pp. 115-131

 

Ness, Lester J., "The Zodiac in the Synagogue," Journal of Ancient Civilizations 12 (1997), 81-92

 

Pines. Shlomo, "To Behold the Stars and the Heavenly Bodies," Immanuel 20 (1986), pp. 33-37 [also in Shlomo Pines Studies in the History of Jewish Thought (ed. by Warren Zev Harvey and Moshe Idel (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1997))

 

Sarfatti, G.B., “An Introduction to ‘Barayta de-Mazzalot’,” Bar-Ilan Yearbook 3 (1965), 56-82 [Heb]

 

Sonne, I., “The Zodaic Theme in Ancient Synagogues and in Hebrew Printed Books,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 1 (1953), 3-13

 

Strobel, August, "Weltenjahr, grosse Konjunktion und Messiasstern: ein themagescheichtlicher Uberlick," ANRW II/20:2 (1987), 998-1187

 

Zinzberg, David S., “The Zodaic: Astrology and Judaism,” Emunah Winter (1997-8), 13-17

 

Ancient

 

Books

 

Charlesworth, James, Astrology, Astronomy, and Magic (Evanston, IL: Religion and Ethics Institute, 1983)

 

Dobin, Joel C., The Astrological Secrets of the Hebrew Sages: to Rule Both Day and Night (New York, NY: Inner Traditions International, 1983)

 

Dobin, Joel C., To Rule Both Day and Night: Astrology in the Bible, Midrash, and Talmud (New York, NY: Inner Traditions International, 1977)

 

Stuckrad, Kocku van, Frommigkeit und Wissenschaft: Astrologie in Tanach, Qumran und Fruhrabbinischer Literatur (Frankfur am Main--New York: P. Lang, 1996)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

 

Albani, “Der Zokaikos in 4Q318 und die Henoch-Astronomie,” Theologische Fakultat Leipzig Forschungsstelle Judentum Mitteilungen und Beitrage 7 (1993), 7-8

 

Allegro, J., “An Astrological Cryptic Document from Qumran,” JSS 9 (1964), pp. 291-294

 

Bischoff, E., “Astrologie in der Henoch Tradition,” ZAW 109 (1997), 222-245

 

Charlesworth, James H., “Jewish Astrology in the Talmud, the Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Early Palestinian Synagogues,” HTR 70 (1977), 183-200

 

Charlesworth, James H., “Jewish Interest in Astrology During the Hellenistic and Roman Period,” ANRW 11.20.2 (1987), 926-950

 

Charlesworth, James H., “Rylands MS 44 and a New Addition to the Pseudepigrapha:  The Treatise of Shem Discussed and Translated,” BJRL 60 (1977-8), 376-403

 

Foerster, G., “The Zodiac in Ancient Synagogues and its Place in Jewish Thought and Literature,” EI 19 (1985), 225-234 [Heb]

 

Foerster, G., “Representations of the Zodiac in Ancient Synagogues and their Iconographic Sources,” EI 18 (1985), 380-391 [Heb]

 

Geller, Markham J., "New Documents from the Dead Sea: Babylonian Science in Aramaic," in Meir Lubetski, Claire Gottleib & Sharon Keller (eds.),   Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: a Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon  (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 224-229

 

Greenfield, Jonas, C., "Astrological and Related Omen Texts in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic," JNES 45:3 (1989), 201-214

 

Greenfield, J.C., & Sokoloff, M., “An Astrological Text from Qumran (4Q318) and Reflections on Some Zodiacal Names,” RevQ 16 (1995), 507-525

 

Greenfield, J.C. and Sokoloff, Michael, "Astrological and Related Omen Texts in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic," JNES 48 (1989), pp. 201-214 

 

Lehmen, G., "New Light on Astrology in Qumran and the Talmud," RevQ 32 (1975), pp. 599-602

 

Pingree, D., “Astronomical Consideration,” RQ 16 (1995), 517-519

 

Powels-Niami, Sylvia, "The Samaritans and Astrology," in Alan D. Crown, and Lucy Davey (eds.) New Samaritan Studies of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines, Vol. III  IV: Proceedings of the Congresses of Oxford 1990 and Paris 1992.  Essay in Honour of G.D. Sixdeiner (Sydney: Mandlebaum, 1995), pp. 259-280)

 

Schmidt, F., “Astrologie juive ancienne: Essai d’interpretation de 4Qcryptique (4Q186),” in Orion International Symposium: Jerusalem 12-14 May 1996 [unpublished]

 

Von Stuckrad, Kocku, “Jewish and Christian Astrology in Late Antiquity-A New Approach,” Numen 47 (2000), 1-40

 

Wachter, L., “Astrologie und Schick Salsglaube im Rabbinischen Judentum,” Kairos 11 (1969), 181-200

 

Wise, Michael Owen, "Thunder in Gemini: an Aramaic Brontologion (4Q318) from Qumran," in M.O. Wise, Thunder in Gemini, and Other Essays on the History, Language, and Literature of Second Temple Palestine (Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1994), pp. 13-50

 

Wong, Chan-Kok, "Philo's use of 'Chaldaioi'," Studia Philonica Annual 4 (1992), 1-14

 

Middle Ages

 

Books

 

Barkai, Ron, Magyah u-mitologyah bi-yeme ha-benayim (Jerusalem: Mekhon Van Lir bi Yerushalayim, 1987)

 

Dobin, Joel C., Kabbalistic Astrology: the Sacred Tradition of the Hebrew Sages (Rochester, NY: Inner Traditions, 1999)

 

Glazerson, Matityahu, Astrologiia i Kabbala (Moskva: Gesharim, 1988 House, 1976)

 

Levy, R., Astrological Works of Abraham ibn Ezra (Baltimore, Md., Paris, Johns Hopkins University Press; Les Presses Universitaires, 1927)

 

Scharf, Andrew, The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo (New York, NY: Ktav. Publishing)

 

Schwatz, Dov, Astrologyah u-magyah ba-hagut ha-yehudit ha-benayim (Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University Press, 1999) [Hebrew]

 

Steinschneider, M., Die Hebraischen Ubersetzungen der Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (1893) [pp. 3-4, 525-527, 599-604, 666, 846-847, 856-859]

 

Suares, Carlo, The Qabala Trilogy (Boston, MA: Random House, 1985)

 

Twersky, Isadore and Harris, Jay M., (eds.) Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra: Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth Century Jewish Polymath (Cambridge, MS: Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies: Distributed by Harvard University Press,            1993)

 

Vital, Hayyim ben Joseph, Goral kodesh ha-shalem: ve-hem 256 she-elot u-meyusad al 12 mazalot (edited by Meir Backal) (Jerusalem: 1964/5)

 

Weinreb, Friedrich, Die Astrologie in der Judischen Mystik (Munchen: Thauror, 1982)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Barkai, R., “L’Astrologie Juive Medieval: Aspects Theoretiques et practiquen,” Moyen Age 93 (1987), 323-348

 

Barkai, Ron, “Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Jewish Astrology in the Middle Ages,” in R. Barkai, Science, Magic, and Mythology in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem: 1987), pp. 7-35 [Heb]

 

Dethier, Hubert, "Some Remarks on the Political Philosophy of Maimonides and Al Farabi with Regard to their Conception of Astral Determinism and in light of German Idealism," in Jesus Pelaez del Rosal (ed.), Sobre la vida y obra de Maimonides: I Congreso Internacional (Cordoba, 1985) (Cordoba: Ediciones El Almendro, 1991), pp. 95-115

 

Feudenthal, Gad, "Levi ben Gershom as a Scientist: Physics, Astrology, and Eschatology," in WCJS 10:C1 (1990), pp. 65-72

 

Feudenthal, Gad, "Maimonides Stance on Astrology in Context: Cosmology, Physics, Medicine, and Providence," in Fred Rosner & Samuel S. Kottek (eds.), Moses  Maimonides (Northvale, NJ: J. Aaronson, 1993), pp. 77-90

 

Freudenthal, G., “Epistemologie, Astronomie et Astrologie chez Gersonide,” REJ 145 (1986), 375-365

 

Freudenthal, Gad, "Providence, Astrology, and Celestial Influences on the Sublunar World in Shem-Tov ibn Falaquara's de'ot ha-Filosofim," in Steven Harvey (ed.),    The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of    the Bar-Ilan University Conference (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 335-370

 

Gaster, Moses, “The Wisdom of the Chaldeans: An Old Hebrew Astrological Text,” in  M. Gaster (ed.), Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, and Medieval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archeaology [3 Vols.] (London: 1928) [Reprint NY: Ktav, 1971], vol. 1, pp. 338-355; vol. 3, pp. 104-108

 

Goldstein, Bernard R., "Levi ben Gerson's Astrology in Historical Perspective," in Dahan, Gilbert (ed.), Gersonides en son Temps: Science et Philosophie Medievales (Louvain: Peeters, 1991), pp. 287-300

 

Gomez Aranda, Mariano, "Teorias Astronomicas y Astrlogicas en el 'Comentario de Abraham Ibn Ezra al Libro del Eclesiastes'," Sefarad 55:2 (1995), 257-272

 

Halbronn, Jacques, "Le Diptyque Astrologipue d'Abraham Ibn Ezra et les Cycles Planetaires du 'Liber Rationum'," REJ 155:1-2 (1996), 171-184

 

Idel, Moshe, "Saturn and Sabbatai Tzevi: A New Approach to Sabbateanism," in Peter Shafer, and Mark Cohen (eds.), Toward the Millenium: Messianic Expectations   from the Bible to Waco (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998), pp. 173-202

 

Idel, M., “An Astral-magical Pneumatic Anthropoid,” Incognito 2 (1991), 9-31

 

Jospe, Raphael, "The Torah and Astrology According to Abraham ibn Ezra," World Congress of Jewish Studies 11, C2 (1994), pp. 17-24

 

Keiner, Ronald, “The Status of Astrology in the Early Kabbalah from the Sefer Yesirah to the Zohar,” in J. Dan (ed.), Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought VI: 3-4 (1987), 1-24

 

Langemann, Y. Tzvi, "Maimonides Repudiation of Astrology," Maimonidean Studies 2 (1992), 123-158

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Maimonides and Astronomy: Some Further Reflections," in Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.) The Jews and Science in the Middles Ages (Aldershot:       Ashgate, 1999), ch. 4.

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Maimonides Repudiation of Astrology," in Robert S. Cohen, & Hillel Levine (eds.), Maimonides and the Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2000), pp. 131-157)

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Some Astrological Themes in the Thought of Abraham ibn Ezra," in Isadore Twersky and Jay M. Harris (eds.), Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra: Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth-Century Jewish Polymath (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993) pp. 28-85 [appears in Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.), The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999)

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Some Remarks on Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen and his Encyclopedia, 'Midrash ha-Hokhmah'," in Steven Harvey (ed.), The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan      University Conference (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 371-389

 

Lasker, Daniel J., “Gersonides on Dreams, Divination, and Astrology,” Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C (Jerusalem: 1982), pp. 47-52

 

Marx, Alexander, “The Correspondence Between the Rabbis of Southern France and Maimonides about Astrology,” HUCA 3 (1926), 311-358

 

Marx, Alexander, “Astrology Among the Jews in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century,” in A. Marx, Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (NY: 1944), pp. 48-64

 

Moreno-Carvalho, Francisco, "Yaacov Rosales: Medicine, Astrology, and Political Thought in the Works of a Seventeenth Certury Jewish-Portuguese Physician," Koroth 10 (1993-1994), 143-156


Romano, David, "Obras Astralogicas de Abraham Ibn Ezra en Catalan (Avance de una Inverstigacion)," in Estaban Fernando Diaz (ed.), Abraham Ibn Ezra y su tiempo (Madrid: Asociacion Espanola de Orientalistas, 1990), pp. 259-267

 

Rosin, D., “Die Religionphilosophie Abraham ibn Esra’s,” MGWJ 42 (1898), 247-252,305-315, 345-362, 394-407

 

Schwartz, Dov, “The Dispute over Astral Magic in Fourteenth Century Provence,” Zion 58 (1992), 141-174 [Heb]

 

Schwartz, Dov, “Astrology and Astral Magic in R. Solomon Al-Qonstantin’s Misaleh `Amuqot,” Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 15 (1992), 37-82

 

Schwartz, Dov, "Astrology and Astral Magic in the Writings of Solomon Akonstantin," Mekhere Yerushalayim be Folklore Yehudi 15 (1993), 37-82

 

Stern, Josef, The Fall and Rise of Myth in Ritual: Maimonides versus Nahmanidies in the 'huqqim,' Astrology, and the War against Idolatry," JJTP 6:2 (1997), 185-263

 

 

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