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 professor emerita of Jewish medieval philosophy in the department of Hebrew Culture Studies and Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on philosophical interpretations of the Bible, mainly those by Maimonides and Gersonides, and on Gersonides’ methods of inquiry and writing. She is the author of Maimonides’ Interpretation of the Story of Creation (2nd ed., Reuven Mass, 1987 [Hebrew]); Maimonides’ Interpretation of the Adam Stories in Genesis: A Study in Maimonides’ Anthropology (Reuven Mass, 1986 [Hebrew]); King Solomon and Philosophical Esotericism in the Thought of Maimonides (Magnes, 1996 [Hebrew]), Maimonides as Biblical Interpreter (Academic Studies Press, 2011) and “Without any Doubt”: Gersonides on Method and Knowledge (Brill, 2011). She is now working on a book on Gersonides’ interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden [Hebrew]. Email: sarakb@post.tau.ac.il
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
Tony Lévy is Chargé de recherche (honorary) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. He has published extensively on the history of medieval mathematics, with a focus on Hebrew mathematics between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. His recent publications include “The Hebrew Mathematics Culture,” in G. Freudenthal (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge, 2011); “Mathematik bei den Juden, cent ans après,” in R. Leicht and G. Freudenthal (eds.), Studies on Steinschneider: Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Leiden and Boston, 2011). Email: tlevy@vjf.cnrs.fr
José Luis Mancha is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Seville. He has published Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics (Aldershot, 2006) and is currently completing a new edition with translation and commentary of Michael Scot’s Latin version of al-Biṭrūjī’s Kitāb fī l-hay’a. Email: mancha@us.es
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
Mauro Zonta is associate professor of the history of Jewish and Arabic philosophy at Sapienza Università di Roma. His main works include La filosofia antica nel Medioevo ebraico (Brescia, 1996); Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century (Dordrecht, 2006); and Maimonide (Rome, 2011). Email: maurozonta@libero.it
