Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- General Introduction -- Part One: Book of Nativities. Hebrew Text and English Translation -- Part Two: Notes to the Book of Nativities -- Part Three: Book of Revolution. Hebrew Text and English Translation -- Part Four: Notes to the Book of Revolution -- 1. Manuscripts of Sefer ha-Moladot -- 2. Early-Hebrew Work on Horoscopic Astrology, Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy -- 3. The Native’s Religious Belief -- 4. Rectification of the Nativity -- 5. The Five Places of Life—the Haylāj and the Kadhkhudāh -- 6. Scales of Power -- 7. The Age of Weaning -- 8. Lords of the Triplicities -- 9. Places of Death -- 10. Melothesia and the Pains of the Planets in the Zodiacal Signs -- 11. Ptolemy’s Ages of Man -- 12. Continuous Horoscopy -- 13. Authorities and Sources (Sefer ha-Moladot) -- 14. Authorities and Sources (Sefer ha-Tequfah) -- English-Hebrew Glossary (Sefer ha-Moladot) -- English-Hebrew Glossary (Sefer ha-Tequfah) -- Hebrew-English Index to the English-Hebrew Glossaries -- Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied with English translation and commentary, of Sefer ha-Moladot , which addresses the doctrine of nativities and the system of continuous horoscopy in nativities, and of Sefer ha-Tequfah , which is devoted exclusively to continuous horoscopy in nativities. The doctrine of nativities makes predictions about the whole of an individual’s subsequent life on the basis of the natal chart, and the system of continuous horoscopy in nativities is concerned with the interval between life and death and makes predictions based mainly on anniversary horoscopes, which are juxtaposed with the natal horoscope. To Abraham Ibn Ezra’s mind, not only are these two doctrines the core of astrology; they also epitomize the praxis of the astrological métier. “Sela...has provided explanatory appendices and very interesting notes about Jewish attitudes toward the sciences and astrology in the middle ages.” Reference andamp; Research Book News, 2013.