| Maimonides on Coitus: A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation Contributor(s): Bos, Gerrit (Editor), Bos, Gerrit (Translator) |
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ISBN: 900438006X ISBN-13: 9789004380066 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $117.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 613.96 |
| LCCN: 2018039969 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large number of slave girls. It is safe to assume that it was popular in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, as it survives in several manuscripts, both in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, three medieval Hebrew translations, two Latin versions from the same translation (edited by Charles Burnett), and a Slavonic translation (edited by Will Ryan and Moshe Taube). |