Selected Religious Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol Selected Religious Poems (JPS Library of Jewish Classics) by Solomon Ibn Gabriol - January 1974

Excellent copy book is clean not marked small amount of tanning on edges, good condition -cover shows some wear scuffs, couple of small chips, just good - solid copy spine extremely tight ....Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century-Solomon ibn Gabirol was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neo-Platonic bent. He published over a hundred poems, Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol (JPS Library of Jewish Classics) Original title in Hebrew: Maḥberet mi-shire ḳodesh. English and Hebrew on opposite pages- -Reprint of 1923 ed.- Jewish Publication Society - January 1, 1974 Language English/ Hebrew Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926.- Davidson, Israel, 1870-1939.- Authors Ibn Gabirol, translator Israel Zangwill - -Editors Israel Zangwill, Israel Davidson- Translated by- Israel Zangwill - - about 5.5 x 1.2 x 8 in. Pages 248- ISBN-10 0827600607 -9780827600607- Bilingual text in English and Hebrew. - Poetry-works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics and satire, Jewish people: history, religion, literature . Prolific poet, author of theFons Vitae, Ibn Gabirol is well known in the history of philosophy for the doctrine that all things —including soul and intellect—are comprised of matter & form ("Universal Hylomorphism"), his emphasis on Divine Will. Ibn Gabirol is moved first then foremost by a Neoplatonic theological sense that God's reality infuses all things,by the concomitant ethical, existential ideal of Neoplatonic Return—the notion that we must strive, through mind ,deed,then reclaim our own truest being -likeness to our source. Misunderstood by centuries of Christian scholastics to be either a Christian defender of Augustine or a Muslim misreader of Aristotle, Ibn Gabirol was a Jewish Neoplatonist, with additional influences of Pseudo Empedoclean ideas, painting a modified Plotinian universe where things are rooted in various "layers" of matters & forms revealing mediating graces of God's own Will/Wisdom/Word. For Ibn Gabirol, everything (even the simple unity of intellect itself) reveals a matter+form complexity, mirroring in this way the complex unity of God's own "essential" - "active" moments. Where God reveals himself as the "Fountain of Life," our material core acts as the river through which we may return always to our source.. -- - see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't - Carefully drop kick packed to survive...Gift just let me know.. LAXVespa Los Angeles / Selected Religious 4203 Judaica 4