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Ferre, Lola, "The Jewish contribution to the transmission of the classical legacy", European Review, 20/4 (2012), 552-562.
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- The transmission and acquisition of the wisdom of the ancients throughout the Middle Ages is a fascinating phenomenon in which languages served as the primary vehicles for this journey of classical culture. The main route – but not the only one – was located on the Mediterranean coasts and incorporated Asia, Europe and Africa. It was a multi-directional journey. Science and philosophy in the Middle Ages constituted a space for intellectual encounters, a common discourse in a world that was highly compartmentalised by religious identity. The first of the encounters took place between the pagan cultures of antiquity (Greek, Persian and Hindu) and the monotheist cultures (Jewish, Christian and Muslim). An encounter also occurred between authors in the three religions, who developed the same passion for this knowledge. Furthermore, reactions to this classical knowledge were similar in the three communities: feelings of sympathy as well as rejection were awakened. Both Muslim and Christian authorities promoted this phenomenon of acquiring knowledge and two medieval languages were used as scientific languages: Arabic and Latin. Within these societies, there was a minority, the Jews, who played an important role in this transmission, both as recipients of the process and as a link in the chain. Bearing in mind their minority status, this role is even more significant: their qualitative importance far surpassed their quantitative importance. Jews contributed to the transmission of classical culture to the Muslim and Christian worlds in at least three ways: > the collaboration of Jewish translators in translation activities, whether into Arabic or into Latin; > the authorship of works that transcended the limits of the community itself to be integrated into the general and common culture; and > the activity of Jewish masters in connection with members of the majority, whether Muslim or Christian.
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