Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Bernard R. Goldstein, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, has written extensively on medieval astronomical texts and tables in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Spanish. In collaboration with José Chabás he has published Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print (American Philosophical Society, 2000), The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo (Kluwer, 2003), and The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini (Brill, 2009). Email: brg@pitt.edu
Sara Klein-Braslavy is a professor of medieval Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on philosophical interpretations of the Bible, especially by Maimonides and Gersonides, and on Gersonides' methods of inquiry and composition. She has written three books in Hebrew on Maimonides' interpretations of the Bible, the Mishnah, and the Talmud: Maimonides' Interpretation of the Story of Creation (Jerusalem 1978; 2nd ed., Jerusalem 1987); Maimonides' Interpretation of the Adam Stories in Genesis (Jerusalem, 1986); and King Solomon and Philosophical Esotericism in the Thought of Maimonides (Jerusalem, 1996). Her recent studies include: "La méthode diaporématique de Gersonide dans les Guerres du Seigneur," in Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide et le maniement du savoir chez les scolastiques, ed. C. Sirat, S. Klein-Braslavy, and O. Weijers (Paris, 2003); "Maimonides' Strategy for Interpreting 'Woman' in the Guide of the Perplexed," in Ecriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévaux, ed. J. Hamesse and O. Weijers (Turnhout, 2006); "Interpretative Riddles in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed," Maimonidean Studies 5 (2008); and "Dialectic in Gersonides' Commentary on Proverbs," TarbiÛ 71(1) (2006) (Hebrew). She is now working on a book on Gersonides' interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden. Email: sarakb@post.tau.ac.il [End Page 1]
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 Abraham Ibn Ezra in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Email: uncletzvi@gmail.com
Moshe Taube holds the Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, affiliated with the departments of Linguistics and of Central and East European Cultures. His main fields of interest are Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian language and literature, translations from Hebrew in ancient Russia, the influence of Slavic languages on Yiddish grammar, the beginnings of modern Eastern Yiddish, and contemporary Yiddish.
His recent publications include: "Which Hebrew Text of Algazel's Intentions served for the Translation of the Slavic Logika?" in M. Taube, R. Timenchik, and S. Schwarzband, eds., Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wolf Moskovich (Jerusalem, 2006); "How imperfect can a Cleft Sentence Be? Focusing dos- and es-Sentences in Yiddish," in T. Bar and E. Cohen, eds., Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honour of Gideon Goldenberg (Münster, 2007); "The 'Praise of the Virtuous Woman' from Hilandar," Slovo 56/57 (Zagreb, 2008); and "A Long(-Forgotten) Passive Construction in Old Russian," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 28. His edition of the Logic of the Judaizers, including the Hebrew and Slavic texts of Maimonides' Logical Terminology and al-Ghazali's Intentions of the Philosophers, is now in press (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Email: mstaube@mscc.huji.ac.il Webpage: http://ling.huji.ac.il/Staff/Moshe_Taube/index.html [End Page 2]
