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THE ATLAS OF THE ONE AND THE MANY
Solomon Munk
Munk
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The German-French orientalist who, working in the Bibliothèque nationale in 1846, matched Hebrew excerpts by Shem Tov ibn Falaquera against the Latin Fons Vitae and proved that "Avicebron" — read for seven centuries by Christian scholastics as an Arab or a Christian — was a Jewish poet of Muslim Spain. Aquinas had argued against him without knowing.
Restoration as scholarship. The pack keeps him because this app's standing rule is that provenance is content: who a thing came from is part of what the thing means, and here somebody did the work of finding out.
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sephirahhod
whyThe sefirah of getting the record right.
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solomon munk · avicebron · 1846 · identification
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