{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"1776","_score":null,"_source":{"id":1776,"authors_free":[{"id":2049,"entry_id":1776,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":1500,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Yehuda Halper","free_first_name":"Yehuda","free_last_name":"Halper","norm_person":{"id":1500,"first_name":"Yehuda","last_name":"Halper","full_name":"Yehuda Halper","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/142969923","viaf_url":"http:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/177995327","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Yehuda Halper"}}],"entry_title":"The Convergence of Religious and Metaphysical Concepts: Mofet and Devequt in the Hebrew Translation of Averro\u00ebs\u2018 Long Commentary on Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"The Convergence of Religious and Metaphysical Concepts: Mofet and Devequt in the Hebrew Translation of Averro\u00ebs\u2018 Long Commentary on Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics"},"abstract":"Translators of Aristotle\u2019s and Averro\u00ebs\u2019 metaphysical works into 14th C Hebrew often associated important philosophical concepts with Hebrew terms that were also used to signify central Jewish and Biblical religious concepts. Here I examine how two such terms, \u201cmofet\u201d and \u201cdevequt\u201d, were used to refer to extraordinary, divine wonders and to clinging (in particular to God) respectively in the religious texts, but to Aristotelian demonstration and continuity (especially noetic continuity) respectively in the translations of Averro\u00ebs\u2019 Long Commentary on Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics. This kind of convergence of metaphysical and religious terms makes possible, indeed encourages, a re-interpretation of the religious concepts along Aristotelian lines. Biblical expressions of God\u2019s wonders are thus to be interpreted to refer to Aristotelian demonstration and the mystical desire to cling to God is to refer to unifi cation with the Active Intellect.","btype":3,"date":"2001","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5840\/studneoar20118213","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":31,"category_name":"Metaphysics","link":"bib?categories[]=Metaphysics"},{"id":21,"category_name":"Aristotle","link":"bib?categories[]=Aristotle"},{"id":47,"category_name":"Relation between Philosophy and Theology","link":"bib?categories[]=Relation between Philosophy and Theology"}],"authors":[{"id":1500,"full_name":"Yehuda Halper","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":1776,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Studia Neoaristotelica","volume":"8","issue":"2","pages":"163-177"}},"sort":[2001]}