The “Meteorological” Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaon

The “Meteorological” Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia GaonAlephSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/T8WM6ITH/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.TamásVisiThe “Meteorological” Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaonhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/T8WM6ITHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/T8WM6ITHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/T8WM6ITHAleph21:22021209-278Some of the key elements of the so-called meteorological interpretation of the biblical creation narrative that we encounter in the works of medieval Jewish philosophers can be traced back to Syriac sources and ultimately to John Philoponus’ treatise on the creation of the world. Philoponus argued that the words “water,” “firmament,” and “heavens” were used equivocally in the biblical text and that the creation narrative can be understood in terms of meteorological processes. Philoponus’ tract was utilized by Jacob of Edessa, whose Syriac work on creation was probably one of the sources of Da’ūd al-Muqammaṣ’s Judeo-Arabic commentary on the creation narrative. Saadia Gaon and Jacob al-Qirqisānī drew Philoponian ideas from al-Muqammaṣ’s work and transmitted them to later generations of Jewish exegetes. Visi, Tamás. “The ‘Meteorological’ Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaon.” Aleph 21:2 (2021): 209–78. Tamás Visi, The ‘Meteorological’ Interpretation of the Creation Narrative from John Philoponus to Saadia Gaon, Aleph 21:2 (2021): 209–78.Daud al-MuqammisGen 1GenesisHexaemeronIX CEJacob of EdessaJacobitesJewish-Christian relationsJohn PhiloponusMoses bar KephaNonnus of NisibisOld TestamentSaadia GaonStoicismSyriac influence [Judaism]VII CEVII-XVIII CEcosmogonycosmologycreationexegesisheavenmeteorology