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Bernard R. Goldstein, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, has recently published, in collaboration with José Chabás, A Survey of European Astronomical Tables in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2012), and “John of Murs Revisited: The Kalendarium solis et lune for 1321,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 43 (2012): 411–437. Email: brg@pitt.edu

Yehuda Halper is Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. Previously he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Liberal Arts at Tulane. He received his Ph.D. with highest distinction from Bar-Ilan University in 2010 with the dissertation, “Averroes on Metaphysical Terminology: An Analysis and Critical Edition of the Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ.” He is currently completing a book for Rowman and Littlefield, The Divine in Ordinary Language: Averroes’ Three Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ. Email: yshalper@gmail.co

Y. Tzvi Langermann teaches in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. He earned his doctorate in the history of science at Harvard. He has recently edited two collections of essays: Avicenna and his Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (Brepols, 2009) and Monotheism and Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Intersections among Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Brill, 2011). Email: uncletzvi@gmail.com

Shlomo Sela is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes towards the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. He has recently published Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations and Medical Astrology, A Parallel Hebrew English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 versions) and the Book of the Luminaries (Leiden and Boston, 2011). This volume continues his edition of Ibn Ezra’s complete works on astrology. Email: shlomo.sela@biu.ac.il [End Page i]

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