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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Raphael Patai |
ISBN: | 0691032904 9780691032900 0691006423 9780691006420 |
OCLC Number: | 1061206885 |
Description: | XIV, 617 Seiten : Illustrationen |
Responsibility: | Raphael Patai. |
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"Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Scholarship" "Groundbreaking and highly original treatise. . . . Before Patai's monumental study, the exact knowledge of the Jewish input into alchemy was minimal. . . . [Raphael Patai] has brought the searching light of his extraordinary excavation skills into the unearthing of a dusty but now glimmering vein of the Jewish experience."---Arnold Ages, Midstream "Raphael Patai seeks to break what he sees as the code of silence surrounding the history of Jewish alchemy, and his book represents the findings of years of intense research in this little-known subject. . . . To the author's great credit he has marshaled a vast array of sources in an effort to reaffirm that which was proclaimed by both Jewish and especially non-Jewish alchemists until the rise of the 19th-century Jewish scholarship--namely, that the Jews played a seminal role in the history of alchemy."---John Efron, Forward Read more...

