TY - JOUR
T1 - הדימוי האריסטוטלי של עיני העטלף כהיפרטקסט אצל ריה" ל, אבן דאוד, הלל מווירונה ואלבו
AU - ארליך, דרור
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper proposes a new perspective on the question of philosophical sources in medieval Jewish thought. This approach is illustrated in the paper with an analysis of discussions held by several medieval Jewish thinkers on the Aristotelian simile of the bat's eyes. Research has dealt extensively with the philosophical sources issue, underlying mostly the reading of the later text in light of the early one, thus focusing on the identification of the source of a certain text, and on whether it displays a direct influence from that early philosophical composition, or not. Here, on the basis of a concept taken from the literary theory of intertextuality, this paper aims to show that, alongside this common approach, it could be useful to discuss the relations between the two texts from the opposite direction as well, namely reading the early text in the light of the later. The discussion from this point of view will demonstrate that although Jewish thinkers who quoted from, or made paraphrases of, early philosophical texts were more interested in the new contexts they gave them in their theological discussions than in their original meaning and purpose, these discussions also provide us an indirect, but nevertheless meaningful, interpretation of these texts in their former philosophical contexts. In order to illustrate and defend this approach this paper offers an analysis of medieval Jewish discussions of the Aristotelian simile of the bat's eyes in different theological contexts, rather than in its original scientific context, comparing them with the interpretations of the simile in ancient, medieval and modern commentaries of the Metaphysics. The results of this comparison present interesting parallel between the two principal ways this simile has been interpreted within Aristotelian commentary literature and the ways the Jewish thinkers understood it.
AB - This paper proposes a new perspective on the question of philosophical sources in medieval Jewish thought. This approach is illustrated in the paper with an analysis of discussions held by several medieval Jewish thinkers on the Aristotelian simile of the bat's eyes. Research has dealt extensively with the philosophical sources issue, underlying mostly the reading of the later text in light of the early one, thus focusing on the identification of the source of a certain text, and on whether it displays a direct influence from that early philosophical composition, or not. Here, on the basis of a concept taken from the literary theory of intertextuality, this paper aims to show that, alongside this common approach, it could be useful to discuss the relations between the two texts from the opposite direction as well, namely reading the early text in the light of the later. The discussion from this point of view will demonstrate that although Jewish thinkers who quoted from, or made paraphrases of, early philosophical texts were more interested in the new contexts they gave them in their theological discussions than in their original meaning and purpose, these discussions also provide us an indirect, but nevertheless meaningful, interpretation of these texts in their former philosophical contexts. In order to illustrate and defend this approach this paper offers an analysis of medieval Jewish discussions of the Aristotelian simile of the bat's eyes in different theological contexts, rather than in its original scientific context, comparing them with the interpretations of the simile in ancient, medieval and modern commentaries of the Metaphysics. The results of this comparison present interesting parallel between the two principal ways this simile has been interpreted within Aristotelian commentary literature and the ways the Jewish thinkers understood it.
UR - https://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/search?vid=ULI&lang=iw_IL&query=lsr10,contains,000814177
M3 - מאמר
SN - 0334-2336
VL - 74-75
SP - 357
EP - 374
JO - דעת: כתב-עת לפילוסופיה יהודית וקבלה
JF - דעת: כתב-עת לפילוסופיה יהודית וקבלה
ER -