Note on Contributors
- Note on Contributors
Joshua Blau is professor emeritus of Arabic of the Hebrew University. His most recent books include The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic: A Study of the Origins of Neo-Arabic and Middle Arabic (Jerusalem, 1965, 1999); The Wanderings of Judah Alḥarizi: Five Accounts of His Travels (Jerusalem, 2002; Hebrew) (with J. Yahalom); and A Dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Texts (Jerusalem, 2006).
Herbert A. Davidson is professor emeritus of Hebrew at UCLA. His field of interest is medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy. He recently published Moses Maimonides, the Man and His Works (Oxford, 2005).
José Martínez Delgado received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies of Complutense University in Madrid. He then continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cairo University, and Harvard University. After two years on the faculty of the University of Tetuan (Morocco), he now teaches classical Hebrew at the University of Granada. He specializes in Andalusian Hebrew grammar and Judeo-Arabic lexicography. He is particularly interested in applying new trends in lexicographical studies to Andalusian Hebrew grammars and dictionaries.
Carlos Fraenkel is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal. His recent publications include From Maimonides to Samuel Ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalālat al-Ḥāʾirīn into the Moreh ha-Nevuḵim (Heb.) (Jerusalem, 2007); “The Problem of Anthropomorphism in a hitherto unknown Passage from Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Maʾamar [End Page 401] Yiqqawu ha-Mayim and in a Newly Discovered Letter by David ben Saul,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 11 (2004): 83–126; “Maimonides’ God and Spinoza’s Deus sive Natura,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 44(2) (2006): 169–215; “Beyond the Faithful Disciple: Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Criticism of Maimonides,” Daʾat 56–58 (2006): 61–82.
Gad Freudenthal is a permanent senior research fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. 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 the edited collection Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Brill, forthcoming). He also is the editor of Aleph.
Warren Zev Harvey is chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many studies on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, including Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (Amsterdam, 1998).
Alfred Ivry is an emeritus professor in the departments of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. His specialty is medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy. He has edited and translated writings by Moses Narboni, al-Kindi, and Averroes and has written many articles on the philosophy of Maimonides and of Averroes. His recent articles include “Maimonides and Midrash,” pp. 7*–17* in A Word Fitly Spoken, ed. Meir M. Bar-Asher et al. (Jerusalem, 2007); “The Image of Moses in Maimonides’ Thought,” pp. 113–34 in Maimonides after 800 Years, ed. Jay M. Harris (Cambridge, MA, 2007); and “Conjunction in and of Maimonides and Averroes,” pp. 231–48 in Averroes et les Averroïsmes Juif et Latin, ed. J.-B. Brenet (Turnhout, 2007). [End Page 402]
Joel Kraemer, the John Henry Barrows Professor (emeritus) in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, is the author of Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam and Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam (Leiden, 1986, 1991). He is also the translator and editor of Letters and Epistles of Maimonides (New Haven, forthcoming). His biography of Maimonides, Moses Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, will be published by Doubleday/Random House in October 2008.
Y. Tzvi Langermann received his Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard; he is now a member of the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. Among his most recent publications are Hebrew Medical Astrology (Philadelphia, 2005) (with Gerrit Bos and Charles Burnett); “Ibn Kammūna and the ‘New Wisdom’ of the Thirteenth Century,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005): 277–327; and the entry on...
