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Abraham ibn Ezra’s Biblical Philosophy
Mysticism, mathematics, and rationalism in an integrated whole.
Of all the medieval Jewish Bible commentators, I find Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1167) the most intriguing. An accomplished poet with a rich education in the arts and sciences along with foundational rabbinic texts, he treated mysticism, theology, grammar, astronomy, astrology, and mathematics not as separate disciplines but as part of a smoothly integrated whole. Tzvi Langermann discusses this fascinating rabbi with J.J. Kimche, explaining Ibn Ezra’s “arithmology” (ideas about the significance of numbers), his friendship with his relative and fellow poet-rabbi Judah Halevi, and his relationship to rationalism. (Audio, minutes.)
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Abraham ibn Ezra’s Biblical Philosophy
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