Hebrew Tradition
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Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi
The scriptural exegete, intellectual, and itinerant scholar, Joseph ibn Kaspi (1280-1344, Southern France and Spain) believed that a knowledge of logic was essential for understanding the Bible. For that reason he wrote for his son a compendium of logic, A Bundle of Silver, based mostly on his abridgement of Hebrew translations of the commentaries and short works of Averroes and al-Fārābī.
Al-Fārābī, Short Treatise on the Sophistics (“Fallacious Topics”), Anonymous Hebrew Translation, extant in ten mss.
Averroes, Middle Commentary on the Sophistics, Hebrew trans. Kalonymos b. Kalonymos, extant in fourteen mss.
Judah Messer Leon, The Perfection of Beauty, extant in 13 mss.
Levi Gersonides, Commentary on Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Topics and the Sophistics, Oxford, Bodleian Ms. Mich. 64 and Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria Ms. A I 14/9.
Levi Gersonides, Commentary on Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Prior Analytics, extant in 4 complete mss.
Peter of Spain, Tractatus, section on Fallacies, trans. Abraham Avigdor, Paris BNF héb. 929, with an anonymous translation of De fallaciis ad quosdam nobiles artistas. Paris BNF héb. 929.
Peter of Spain, Tractatus, trans. Anonymous. Oxford, Bodleian Ms. Mich. 195/1.
Shemariah ha-Ikriti (the Cretan) of Negroponte, Logic, section on fallacies based on De fallaciis ad quosdam nobiles artistas. Leiden, UBL Cod. Or. 4780/2.