Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12

Yoav Meyrav, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv, 2017), is a research associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg. He has published on Medieval Jewish philosophy, Medieval Hebrew translation, and Late Antique philosophy.

"Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment. However, there is much more here than philology—Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek—as well as a significant contribution to translation studies. Meyrav takes responsibility for advancing the appreciation of the philosophical content of the paraphrase. Moreover, given that the Greek original is lost, he senses and meets an obligation to classicists to squeeze what he can from the text that is relevant to their discipline, notably regarding the genre of the paraphrase." - Tzvi Langermann, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020“Yoav Meyrav’s publication is a stunningly impressive work of scholarship. He has produced a meticulous edition of the text, scrutinizing the available Hebrew and Arabic sources, and sorting them out according to their distance from the original—translation, revised translation, abridgment.[…] Meyrav has set an academic standard.” Y. Tzvi Langermann in Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.06.19/[09/08/2021, 15:39:18]

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroduction1 Overview2 Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 before Themistius3 Themistius on Metaphysics 12: Context and Scholarship4 Themistius’ Paraphrase of Metaphysics 12 in the Arabic and Hebrew Traditions5 Looking Forward1 The Textual Tradition1 Overview2 The Arabic Textual Tradition3 The Hebrew Textual Tradition4 Moshe Finzi’s Latin Translation5 Principles of the Present Edition2 Historical and Methodological Aspects of Themistius as Paraphrast of Metaphysics 121 Overview2 The Aims and Methodologies of Themistius’ Paraphrases3 Examples4 ConclusionThemistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12: Parallel Hebrew/Arabic EditionAbbreviations1 Hebrew Sources2 Arabic Sources3 Misc.Text and TranslationCommentaryIntroductionChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10ConclusionAppendix A: Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn’s Arabic Translation of Metaphysics 2 and Its Abridgment in MS Ḥikma 6: Text and NotesAppendix B: Two Versions of the Hebrew Translation of the Themistius Quotations in Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics—A Preliminary EditionAppendix C: Matter and Element—Case StudyHebrew–Arabic LexiconArabic–Hebrew LexiconBibliographyIndex