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
Ram Ben-Shalom is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of Facing Christian Culture: Historical Consciousness and Images of the Past among the Jews of Spain and Southern France during the Middle Ages (Hebrew), Ben-Zvi Institute, 2006 (soon to appear in English as Medieval Jews and the Christian Past: Jewish Historical Writing from Spain and Southern France, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012).
Maud Kozodoy is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her research focuses on the intersection between science and literature in the medieval period. Other interests include Jewish-Christian polemics, number theory, and mnemonics. Her recent publications include "The Hebrew Bible as Weapon of Faith in Late-Medieval Iberia: Irony, Satire, and Scriptural Allusion in Profiat Duran's Al Tehi ka-Avotekha," JSQ 18 (2011): 1-17; and "The Jewish Physician in Medieval Iberia," in The Jew in Medieval Iberia, ed. J. Ray (Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2011). Her current project is a monograph on the late-fourteenth-century converso polymath Profiat Duran. [End Page 1]
Robert Morrison is currently associate professor of Religion at Bowdoin College (Maine, USA). His Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (Routledge, 2007) was awarded the 2009 World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Islamic studies. His previous research has focused on the role of science in Islamic and Jewish texts, as well as on the history of Islamic science. [End Page 2]
