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Record Nr.

UNINA9910576866403321

Autore

Jäckel Florian

Titolo

"Wenn wir sagen, dass der Tropfen Mensch wird" / / Florian Jäckel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baden-Baden : , : Ergon, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages)

Disciplina

591.33

Soggetti

Embryology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Notions of the unborn can be found in diverse medical, philosophical and theological works from antiquity to the present. While prior studies have examined similarities and differences between such notions in various learned and religious contexts, Syriac literary tradition has hardly received any attention. This book is a sub-stantial contribution to closing this gap in research and to the cross-cultural history of philosophy. It analyses several key works in the corpus of the prolific polymath Bar ʻEbrāyā and traces his incorporation of Greek philosophical, Christian and Islamic texts into a novel 'embryological synthesis'.