The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy

One: The Medieval Latin Encyclopedias.- 1. Purpose and Audience: Perspectives on the Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Alexander Neckam, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Thomas of Cantimpré and Vincent of Beauvais.- 2. The Organization of Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum maius and of Some Other Latin Encyclopedias Excursus: Aristotle and Other Greek and Arabic Scientific Sources in Three Thirteenth-Century Latin Encyclopedias.- Two: The Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy in the Medieval Islamic World.- 3. Medieval Arabic Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy.- 4. In What Sense Is Averroes an Encyclopedist?.- Three: Early Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 5. Reflections on the Place of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah in the Tradition of the Medieval Encyclopedia.- 6. The First Hebrew Encyclopedia of Science: Abraham Bar Hiyya’s Yesodei ha-Tevunah u-Migdal ha-Emunah.- 7. Encyclopedic Aspects of Abraham ibn Ezra’s Scientific Corpus.- 8. Levi ben Abraham of Villefranche’s Controversial Encyclopedia.- Four: Structure and Sources of the Major Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 9. Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen’s Midrash ha-Hokhmah: Its Sources and Use of Sources.- 10. Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera’s De‘ot ha-Filosofim: Its Sources and Use of Sources.- 11. Gershom ben Solomon of Aries’ Sha’ar ha-Shamayim: Its Sources and Use of Sources.- Five: Topics in the Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 12. The Logic of the Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 13. Mathematics in the Midrash ha-?okhmah of Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen.- 14. The Question of Celestial Matter in the Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 15. Providence, Astrology, and Celestial Influences on the Sublunar World in Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera’s De’ot ha-Filosofim.- 16. Some Remarks on Judah ben Solomon ha-Cohen and His Encyclopedia,Midrash ha-?okhmah.- 17. The Soul of the Hebrew Encyclopedists.- 18. The Place of Aristotelian Metaphysics in the Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias.- Six: Later Hebrew Encyclopedias.- 19. Ahavah ba-Ta’anugim: A Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Science and Theology.- 20. The Hebrew Encyclopedias of the Renaissance.- Addendum. Steinschneider on the Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias: An Annotated Translation from Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters.- Index of Passages.- Index of Books.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.