Giuseppe Veltri (Ph.D. and habilitation at FU Berlin [1991, 1996]) is a professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Hamburg University. Among his publications are Rinascimento nel pensiero ebraico (2020); Discourse on the State of the Jews and in Particular Those Dwelling in the Illustrious City of Venice by Simone Luzzatto (2019); Socrates or On Human Knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews(2019); L’ebraismo come scienza. Cultura e politica in Leopold Zunz (with Libera Pisano) (2019); Alienated Wisdom. Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism (2018); and Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009).Giada Coppola earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in 2012. Florian Dunklau, M.A., is a research associate in the project Premodern Hebrew Philosophic and Scientific Terminology (PESHAT in Context) at Hamburg University (2014-present).

• ContentsPreludePrefaceNotes on Contributors1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceGiuseppe VeltriPart 1: Biography2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and CharityAndrew Berns3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah SfornoSaverio CampaniniPart 2: Philosophy4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the IntellectSymon Foren5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of ParticularsSteven Harvey6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the WorldGiada Coppola7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio DeiWarren Zev Harvey8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin PriorityFlorian DunklauPart 3: Exegesis9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia SfornoJean-Pierre Rothschild10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical WorksMoshe KravetzPart 4: Environment and Reception11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century BolognaGuido Bartolucci12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms CommentaryYael SelaIndex

Giuseppe Veltri (Ph.D. and habilitation at FU Berlin [1991, 1996]) is a professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Hamburg University. Among his publications are Rinascimento nel pensiero ebraico (2020); Discourse on the State of the Jews and in Particular Those Dwelling in the Illustrious City of Venice by Simone Luzzatto (2019); Socrates or On Human Knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews(2019); L’ebraismo come scienza. Cultura e politica in Leopold Zunz (with Libera Pisano) (2019); Alienated Wisdom. Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism (2018); and Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009).Giada Coppola earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in 2012. Florian Dunklau, M.A., is a research associate in the project Premodern Hebrew Philosophic and Scientific Terminology (PESHAT in Context) at Hamburg University (2014-present).

• ContentsPreludePrefaceNotes on Contributors1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceGiuseppe VeltriPart 1: Biography2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and CharityAndrew Berns3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah SfornoSaverio CampaniniPart 2: Philosophy4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the IntellectSymon Foren5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of ParticularsSteven Harvey6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the WorldGiada Coppola7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio DeiWarren Zev Harvey8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin PriorityFlorian DunklauPart 3: Exegesis9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia SfornoJean-Pierre Rothschild10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical WorksMoshe KravetzPart 4: Environment and Reception11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century BolognaGuido Bartolucci12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms CommentaryYael SelaIndex

Giuseppe Veltri (Ph.D. and habilitation at FU Berlin [1991, 1996]) is a professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Hamburg University. Among his publications are Rinascimento nel pensiero ebraico (2020); Discourse on the State of the Jews and in Particular Those Dwelling in the Illustrious City of Venice by Simone Luzzatto (2019); Socrates or On Human Knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews(2019); L’ebraismo come scienza. Cultura e politica in Leopold Zunz (with Libera Pisano) (2019); Alienated Wisdom. Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism (2018); and Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009).Giada Coppola earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in 2012. Florian Dunklau, M.A., is a research associate in the project Premodern Hebrew Philosophic and Scientific Terminology (PESHAT in Context) at Hamburg University (2014-present).

• ContentsPreludePrefaceNotes on Contributors1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceGiuseppe VeltriPart 1: Biography2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and CharityAndrew Berns3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah SfornoSaverio CampaniniPart 2: Philosophy4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the IntellectSymon Foren5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of ParticularsSteven Harvey6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the WorldGiada Coppola7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio DeiWarren Zev Harvey8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin PriorityFlorian DunklauPart 3: Exegesis9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia SfornoJean-Pierre Rothschild10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical WorksMoshe KravetzPart 4: Environment and Reception11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century BolognaGuido Bartolucci12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms CommentaryYael SelaIndex