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    Abraham Ibn Ezra, a Twelfth-Century Polymath who Straddled Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Culture

    In the middle of the eighth century, with the completion of the Islamic conquest of the eastern, northern and part of the western shores of the Mediterranean, Jews managed to successfully integrate into the ruling society without losing their religious and national identity. They willingly adopted the Arabic language, spoke Arabic fluently, wrote Arabic in Hebrew letters (Judeo-Arabic), and employed Arabic in the composition of their literary works. The twelfth century witnessed a cultural phenomenon that saw Jewish scholars gradually abandon the Arabic language and adopt Hebrew, previously used almost exclusively for religious and liturgical purposes, for the first time as a vehicle for the expression of secular and scientific ideas.

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    Neurosciences and Cabbal - a possible dialogue?

    La table ronde a pour objectif d’ouvrir un dialogue sur ces nouvelles perspective en confrontant les domaines apparemment très différents des sciences du cerveau et de la mystique religieuse. Moshe Idel, éminent expert des études sur la mystique juive, et Shahar Arzy, neuroscientifique cognitif et neurologue, proposent dans leur étude une intéressante clef de lecture de la Cabbale à travers les nouvelles recherches des neurosciences. Ils analysent en particulier l’expérience mystique des cabbalistes en déchiffrant les mécanismes et les techniques qui influencent leur système cognitif ; par exemple l’extase, caractérisée par une altération des fonctions neurocognitives qui enchaînent le soi au corps.

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