The Jewish alchemists : a history and source book

Alchemy, Greek : Part Two: The Hellenistic Age, p49-94.. Zosimos : On Maria the Jewess, p81-91.. Maria The Jewess (Alchemy) : p60-91.. Alchemy, Islamic : Part Three: The early Arab world, p95-138.. Alchemy In The Bible : p18-48.

Part 1 - Prelude. 1 Introduction. 2 Biblical figures as alchemists. 3 Alchemy in the Bible. Part 2 - The Hellenistic age. 4 Jews in Hellenistic alchemy. 5 Maria the Jewess. 6 Zosimus on Maria the Jewess. Part 3 - The early Arab world. 7 Abufalah's alchemy. 8 A Hebrew version of the Book of Alums and Salts. 9 Pseudo-Khalid ibn Yazid. Part 4 - The eleventh to thirteenth centuriies. 10 Artephius. 11 The great Jewish philosophers. 12 Kabbalah and alchemy: a reconsideration. Part 5 - The fourteenth century. 13 Raymund de Tarrega: Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist. 14 The quinta essentia in Hebrew. 15 Flamel's Jewish masters. 16 Two Spanish-Jewish court alchemists. 17 Abraham Eleazar. 18 Themo Judaci. Part 6 - The fifteenth century. 19 Simeon ben Semah Duran. 20 Solomon Trismosin and his Jewish master. 21 Abraham ben Simeon's Cabala Mystica. 22 Isaac Hollandus and his son John Isaac. 23 Johanan Alemanno and Joseph Albo. 24 Pseudo-Maimonides. 25 Three Kuzari commentators. Part 7 - The sixteenth century. 26 Esh M'saref: a Kabbalistic-alchemical treatise. 27 Taitazak and Provencali. 28 Hayyim Vital, alchemist. 29 An alchemical miscellany. 30 Labi, Hamawi,and Portaleone. 31 The Manchester (John Rylands) manuscript. Part 8 - The seventeenth century. 32 Leone Modena, Delmedigo, and Zerah. 33 Four seventeenth-century manuscriipts. 34 Benjamin Mussafia. 35 Benjamin Jesse. Part 9 - The eighteenth century. 36 Hayyim Sh'muel Falck. 37 The Comte de Saint-Germain. 38 Jacob Emden; the Bar Han manuscript. Part 10 - The nineteenth century. 29 An alchemical manuscript from Jerba. 40 Mordecai Abi Serour. Conclusion - A profile of Jewish alchemy. Appendix - An alchemical vocabulary from Jerba

'In this monumental work, Raphael Patai, acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves) and The Hebrew Goddess, opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century.'

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