Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Dr. Ofer Elior received his Ph.D. in Jewish thought from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2011. His dissertation focused on Ruaḥ Ḥen, an anonymous medieval Hebrew introduction to science, and its transmission and reception in various cultural environments of European Jewry. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva. His research project there is preparing a critical edition of Gersonides’ Wars of the Lord. He has recently written on the reception of the Pythagorean theory of celestial sounds in medieval Jewish thought: “‘The Conclusion Whose Demonstration is Correct is Believed’: Maimonides on the Possibility of Celestial Sounds, According to Three Medieval Interpreters,” Revue des études juives (forthcoming); and “Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen Studies the Music of the Spheres,” Maddaʿei ha-Yahadut (Hebrew; forthcoming).Email: ofer.elior@unige.ch. Webpage: http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/enseignants/oelior/home.html
Seymour Feldman is emeritus professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He translated and annotated Gersonides’ Wars of the Lord (3 volumes, Jewish Publication Society), based on a critical study of several manuscripts, thus providing a needed correction of the 1866 Hebrew edition of the original text. In addition, he has published a study of Isaac Abravanel and his son Judah (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and a monograph on the religious philosophy of Gersonides (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011), as well as numerous essays on various medieval Jewish philosophers and Spinoza. Email: seyfeld@yahoo.com [End Page 1]
Resianne Fontaine teaches in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her areas of research are the history of medieval Jewish philosophy and science and medieval Hebrew encyclopedias. She has published a number of studies in these fields, notably on topics related to meteorology and zoology. Her books include In Defence of Judaism. Abraham Ibn Daud: Sources and Structure of Ha-Emunah Ha-Ramah (Assen, 1990) and Otot Ha-Shamayim: Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Hebrew Version of Aristotle’s Meteorology: A Critical Edition (Leiden, 1995). She is associate editor of Aleph. Email: t.a.m.smidtvangelder-fontaine@uva.nl
Gad Freudenthal is senior research fellow emeritus at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris and a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva. His books include: Aristotle’s Theory of Material Substance: Form and Soul, Heat and Pneuma (Oxford, 1995); Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, 2005); and (as editor) Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He also is the editor of Aleph. Email: gad.freudenthal@gmail.com
Ahuva Gaziel completed her Ph.D. studies in the program for History and Philosophy of Science at Bar-Ilan University (2008). She teaches the history and philosophy of science at the Michlala-Jerusalem College. Her research interests are the life sciences in medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical exegesis. Recent publications include: “Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective,” Journal of the History of Biology 45/2 (2012): 329–352; and “Spontaneous Generation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Theology,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (forthcoming). Email: gazielah@gmail.com
Steven Harvey is professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, and former chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy there. In 2012, he was Crane Foundation Visiting Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Johns Hopkins [End Page 2] University. He is president of the Commission for Jewish Philosophy of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale. He has published extensively on the medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophers, with special focus on Averroes’s commentaries on Aristotle and on the influence of the Islamic philosophers on Jewish thought. He is the author of Falaquera’s Epistle of the Debate: An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy (1987) and editor of The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (2000) and Anthology of the Writings of Avicenna (2009, in Hebrew). Email: Steven. Harvey@biu.ac.il
Warren Zev Harvey is professor emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought...
