Studies in the History of Culture and Science

Resianne Fontaine is University Lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.Her fields of research are medieval Jewish philosophy and the history of science in medieval Judaism. She has edited Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew version of Aristotle's Meteorology. She currently prepares an edition of parts of the Midrash ha-Hokhmah.Ruth Glasner, is Professor of history of science at the Hebrew University and specialist in ancient and medieval science. She is especially interested in the genre of the philosophical-scientific commentary. She published a book Averroes' Physics (2009), and a book in Hebrew A Fourteenth-Century Scientific Philosophical Controversy (1998). She is preparing a book on Gersonides. Reimund Leicht, is Senior Lecturer for Jewish Thought and History of Sciences at the Hebrew University Jerusalem. He has published on subjects related to Jewish cultural history in late Antiquity, on Jewish Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages and on Johannes Reuchlin, including Verzeichnis der Hebraica in der Bibliothek Johannes Reuchlins (2005, with v. Abel) and Astrologumena Judaica (2006).Giuseppe Veltri, is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Zunz Centre (Halle). He has published widely in the subjects of hermeneutics and philosophy including Gegenwart der Tradition (2002), Cultural Intermediaries (2004 with D. Ruderman); Libraries, Translation and 'Canonic texts' (2006); The Jewish Body (2008, with M. Diemling); Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009).

• Texts: Editions, Translations, and CommentariesRoshdi Rashed, Le pseudo al-Ḥasan ibn al-Hayṯam: sur l’asymptoteCharles Burnett, Al-Qabīsī’s Introduction to Astrology: from Courtly Entertainment to University TextbookY. Tzvi Langermann, A Different Hue to Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Four Investigations into an Unstudied Philosophical TextMauro Zonta, Aristotle’s De anima and De generatione et corruptione in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition: New Details Regarding Textual History Coming from a Neglected ManuscriptTony Lévy, La mesure du cercle d’Archimède au moyen age : le témoignage des textes hébreuxPaul B. Fenton, Un traité judéo-arabe sur les vertus du tabac rédigé dans la main du Šayḫ Sufī ‘Abd al-Ġani an-NabulusīStudiesHerbert A. Davidson, Maimonides and Samuel Ben AliJosep Puig Montada, Ibn Rušd and the Almohad ContextCarlos Fraenkel, Legislating Truth: Maimonides, the Almohads and the Thirteenth-Century Jewish EnlightenmentJudith Olszowy-Schlanger, The Money language: Latin and Hebrew in Jewish Legal Contracts from Medieval EnglandReimund Leicht, Naḥmanides on NecromancyResianne Fontaine, The First Survey of the Metaphysics in HebrewHagar Kahana-Smilansky, Solomon ben Moses Melguiri and the Transmission of Knowledge from Latin into HebrewSara Klein-Braslavy, Dialectic in Gersonides’ Biblical CommentariesJosé Luis Mancha, Demonstrative Astronomy: Notes on Levi ben Geršom’s answer to Guide II.24Warren Zev Harvey, Nicole Oresme and Ḥasdai Crescas on Many WorldsRuth Glasner, The Peculiar History of Aristotelianism among Spanish JewsEarly Modern Cultural History and HistoriographyBernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon, Duhem’s Continuity Thesis: The Intrusion of Ideology into History of ScienceGideon Freudenthal, Enlightenment in GoldShlomo Berger, A Bestseller in Context: Referring to the Tsene Rene in Early Modern Yiddish BooksCharles Manekin, On Humanist Logic Judaized—Then and Now: Two Models for the Appropriation of Gentile ScienceIrene E. Zwiep, Hebrew “Sociolinguistics”