SECTS, COMMUNITIES, AND NONBIBLICAL WRITERS AND WRITINGS
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Abahu, Rabbi, 349
Alexander of Aphrodisias, 66, 67, 285, 289, 320, 463, 465, 473; “On Governance,” 462; “The Principles of the All,” 254
Amoraim, 18
Andalusia(ns), 177; men of, 92; people in, 268
Apollonius: “Conic Sections,” 210
Aqiba, Rabbi, 68, 353
Aristotle, 112, 182, 217, 235, 240, 241, 246–48, 254, 256–59, 262, 265, 265, 283–89, 291, 293, 296, 298, 302, 304–6, 310, 311, 313–20, 322, 323, 325, 326, 328, 330, 346, 349, 384, 432, 449, 450, 454, 463–66, 468, 469, 471–73, 494, 520, 521; chief of the philosophers, 29; “De Caelo,” 267, 290, 307; “Metaphysics,” 132, 168, 239, 308; “Meteorologica,” 353; “Nicomachean Ethics,” 371, 476, 572, 601, 608; “Physics” (“Akroasis”), 196, 239, 283, 290, 312, 438, 515; “Rhetoric,” 608; “Topica,” 292
Ashʿariyya (Ashʿarite), 177, 202, 203, 466, 468–70, 494
Ashi, Rabbi, 19
Babylon(ian), 337, 338, 384, 405, 406, 411, 486, 516, 519, 520
Banū Shākir: “Book of Ingenious Devices,” 198
Bar Qappara, 573
Baraithoth, 18
Bereshith Rabbah (see Midrash) Canaan(ites), 541, 553, 587
Christians, 111, 177, 178, 225
Copts, 590
Degrees of the Sphere and the Forms Appearing in Each of These Degrees, Book of, 521
Edom(ite), 339, 340, 343, 411, 437, 569, 570, 613, 615
Egypt(ians), 343, 345, 360, 390, 397, 499, 530, 531, 541, 552, 561, 570–72, 581, 582, 585, 590
Elazar, Rabbi, 75
Eliezer ben Hyrqanos the Great, Rabbi, 61, 330, 331, 349, 366; “Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer,” 149, 174, 330, 332
Elisha Aḥer, 69
Euclid, 198
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muhammad, 207, 292, 309, 476; glosses on the “Akroasis,” 309; “On the Intellect,” 299; “The Changing Beings,” 222
Franks, 598
Galen, 196, 281, 292; “On the Natural Faculties,” 214; “On the Utilities of the Parts of the Body,” 444, 525
Gaonim, 176, 471
Gemara: Shabbath, 490; Yoma, 575
Greeks (Greece), 177, 178, 342, 381
Haggadah, 19
Ḥaninah, Rabbi, 140, 141, 142, 148
Hebrew(s), 336, 339, 362, 424, 435, 438, 632, 633
Hermes, 521
Hindus, 515
Ḥiyya the Great, Rabbi, 389
Ibn ʿAdī, 177, 178
Ibn Aflaḥ, Jābir, 268
Ibn Bājja, Abū Bakr Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, 221, 268, 269, 323, 326; commentary on the “Akroasis,” 515
Ibn Janaḥ, 93
Ibn Waḥshiyya, 518 (see also “Nabatean Agriculture”)
Isaac, Rabbi, 426
Islam, 176–78
Islamic internalists, 328
Jeremiah ben Elazar, Rabbi, 345, 346
Jonathan, Rabbi, 345
Jonathan ben Uziel, 32, 59, 64, 85, 91, 276, 338, 408, 419, 421, 423, 424
Joshua, Rabbi, 366
Josiah, Rabbi, 549
Judah ha-Nasi ben Rabbi Simon, Rabbi, 18, 349, 350, 425, 434
Magians, 595
Maimonides: “Book of Correspondence,” 9; “Book of Prophecy,” 9; Commentary on the Mishnah, 9, 89, 161, 347, 362, 367; Introduction to the Commentary on the Mishnah, 563; Commentary on Aboth, 434, 538, 598, 629, 630; Introduction to Commentary on Aboth, 537; “Mishneh Torah,” 10, 48, 89, 367, 403, 499, 512, 517, 554, 571 (cf. also 535–608 passim); “Book of Knowledge,” 174; our compilations, 391; our great compilation, 83, 163, 273, 362, 517, 544; our juridical compilations, 176; our legal compilations, 6; the great legal compilation, 10
Mekhilta (see Midrash)
Men of the Great Synagogue, 140–42
Midrash(im), 9, 10, 11, 19, 33, 102, 174, 176, 254, 260, 272, 333, 356, 364, 390, 479, 572, 573, 578, 597; Bereshith Rabbah, 103, 108, 172, 260, 263, 264, 270, 273, 331, 345, 350, 370, 440, 508, 636; Mekhilta, 364; Midrash Ḥazith, 365; Midrash Qoheleth, 263, 264, 345; Midrash Rabbi Tanḥuma, 272; Siphra, 533, 595; Siphre, 149, 587
Mishnah, 18, 161, 425, 470, 489; Middoth, 594; Tamid, 594
Moslems, 178, 179
Muʿtazila (Muʿtazilite), 176, 177, 201, 203, 204, 460, 468, 469–71, 494
“Nabatean Agriculture, The,” 515, 518, 522, 542, 547, 548, 549, 559
Negroes, 618
Onqelos the Proselyte, 23, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 60, 61, 85, 86, 106, 107, 108, 160, 331, 354, 365, 366, 387, 424, 575, 581
Peripatetics, 235
Philoponus, John, 177
Philosopher(s), 139, 163, 170, 196, 207, 208, 211, 220, 221. 223, 224, 227, 228, 231, 246, 252, 257, 259, 260, 267, 269, 270, 282, 285, 292, 302, 314, 330, 361, 374, 449, 457, 458, 460, 461, 463, 476, 478, 479, 481, 485, 505, 608, 627, 634, 636; books of the, 19, 177, 179, 239, 269
Plato, 43, 263, 283, 284, 290, 328, 330, 331, 476;
“Timaeus,” 283
Ptolemy, 268, 274, 326; “Almagest,” 322, 324, 325
Pythagoras, 267
al-Qabīṣī: “Epistle Concerning the Distances,” 325
Qaraites, 176
Rab, 19
Raba, 19, 64
Rabbanites, 10, 573
al-Rāzī, 441
al-Ṣābi, Isḥāq, 521
Sabians, 153, 172, 322, 381, 514–16, 518, 520–23, 540, 542, 548, 576, 581, 585, 594, 595, 599, 612, 615
al-Sarb, book, 521
Simon ben Laqish, Rabbi, 489
Siphra (see Midrash)
Siphre (see Midrash)
Sophists, 214
Syria(ns), 177, 221, 515, 548, 552, 582
Talmud, 19, 78, 102, 149, 152, 176, 364;
Hagigah, 172, 427; Pesaḥim, 415
Tarphon, Rabbi, 151
Themistius, 179
Tumtum, book of, 521, 544, 561, 582
al-Ustumākhus, book of, 520
Yoḥanan, Rabbi, 78, 264