HERB - Hebrew References
Christine A Seelye-King
mermayde at juno.com
Mon Jun 8 10:54:15 PDT 1998
Sorry, folks, I can't remember if this originally came from Cook's or
Herbs List, so I'm sending it to both. Someone posted asking about
Avincenna as a period Hebraic scholar. I sent the request to my
Household's Resident Hebraic Expert (he's not a Token anything), Baron
Master Willaim de Montegilt. Here is his reply.
Mistress Christianna MacGrain
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From: Bill Colbert <billcolbert at earthlink.net>
To: mermayde at juno.com (Christine A Seelye-King)
Subject: Re: Hebrew References
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 00:37:54 -0400
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980607003754.006a2c4c at earthlink.net>
Let's see....
1) Avicenna lived in Spain and (I think) North Africa
in the 12th century. If memory serves, he was a
teacher of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (aka Maimonides) (on
whom be peace!). Maimonides was a contemporary of
Richard Lionheart, and late in life became the personal
physician of Saladin.
2) Avicenna was a Jewish doctor. He wrote in Hebrew, and
I think, Arabic, which is typical of folks living in
al Andalus (Spain) about then.
3) Hagadol is really ha-gadol. "Ha" is "the" and gadol is
big (great, large..depending on context). Thus,
"The Great" in this instance.
Cheers....William
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