Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Resianne Fontaine teaches in the Department of Semitic Languages at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland. Her field of research is medieval Jewish philosophyand science. The author ofOtot ha-Shamayim. SamuelIbn Tibbon's Hebrew Translation ofAristotle's Meteorology (Leiden, 1995), she is currently working on the thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedia Midrash ha-Hokmah. Address: Fac. der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, NL - 1081 HV Amsterdam, Holland. E-mail: svgfontaine@let.vanl Ruth Glasner is a senior lecturer in the History of Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She has published a book and several articles on Hebrew Aristotelianism in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. She is currently writing a book on the different versions of Averroes' three commentaries on the Physics and the evolution of his interpretation of the Physics. Address: Program for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: ruthg@math.huji.ac.il Bernard R. Goldstein is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy from antiquity to the seventeenth century, with a particular focus on Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344). He has just completed a book with José Chabás, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsuh: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 90, Part 2 (Philadelphia, 2000). Address: 412 Noble St., Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA. Y. Tzvi Langermann is a member of the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he teaches courses on the Qur'an, Sufism, the history 345 of philosophy, and the history of medicine. His research interests include a wide range of subjects in medieval science and philosophy. His latest book is The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, 1999). Address: Department of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: ytl@mail.biu.ac.il Tony Levy is Chargé de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Centre d'Histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et m?di?vales) in Paris, France. He has published extensively on the history of medieval mathematics, with a focus on Hebrew mathematics between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. Address: CNRS-CHSPAM, 7 rue Guy Môquet, F-94800 Villejuif, France. E-mail: tlevy@vjf.cnrs.fr Dov Schwartz is currently chair of the Departmentof Philosophy and the head of the interdisciplinary program in contemporary Judaism at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His fields of interest are medieval Jewish thought, the relations between Jewish and Muslim medieval thought, and the history of Zionist thought. His recent publications include· Old in New Vessel: The Philosophy of a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Neoplatonic Circle (Heb.) (Jerusalem, 1996); Messianism in Medieval Jewish Thought (Heb.) (Ramat Gan, 1997); Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought (Heb.) (Ramat Gan, 1999); "Changing Fronts in Attitudes Toward Science in the Medieval Debates Over Philosophy,"Journal ofJewish Thought and Philosophy 7 (1997): 61-82. Address: Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: schwardl@mail.biu.ac.il Shlomo Sela is a lecturer in the Department of General and Inderdisciplinary Studies at the University of Tel Aviv and in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences in the Middle Ages, especially in the twelfth century. He has recently published 346 Astrology and Biblical Exegesis in the Thought ofAbraham Ibn Ezra (Heb.), (Ramat Gan, 1999). Address: Bible Department, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel. Sarah Stroumsa teaches in the Department of Arabic Literature and in the Department ofJewish Thought at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem, Israel. She works on the transmission of ideas in the medieval Islamic world, with a special interest in Judeo-Arabic thought. Her most recent book treated the phenomenon of freethinking in medieval Islam. Address: Department of Arabic Language and Literature, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: stroums@vms.huji.ac.il Shulamit Volkov is professor of Modern History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she holds the Konrad Adenauer Chair for Comparative European History. She has published books and essays...