Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Gerrit Bos is professor of Jewish Studies at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne. His research interests focus on medieval Jewish and Islamic science, especially medicine. He is currently pursuing four projects: Maimonides' medical writings; medico-botanical synonym literature in Hebrew manuscripts (with Guido Mensching); Ibn al-Jazzar's medical compendium Zad al-musafir (Viaticum); and Jacob ben Makhir's Hebrew translation of Averroes' De animalibus. His most recent publication is Maimonides' Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6-9 (Provo, 2007).
Email: Gerrit.Bos@web.de
Lola Ferre is a senior lecturer in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She has devoted most of her research to the Hebrew medical literature of the Middle Ages. Ferre has edited and translated (into Spanish or English) the Hebrew translations of Arnau de Vilanova's Medicationis Parabolae, Armengaud Blaise's Tabula Antidotarii, and Johannes de Parma's Practica. She has also written on the social and cultural circumstances of Jewish translators and their linguistic resources and skills.
Email: lolaferre@yahoo.es
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.
Email: freudent@msh-paris.fr [End Page 1]
Ruth Glasner teaches in the program for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy, was published by Oxford University Press. She is now working on another book, Gersonides: A Modern Scientist in the Fourteenth Century. The short paper in this volume is one of several she has written on Hebrew scientific supercommentaries.
Email: ruth.glasner@gmail.com
Tal Kogman, a lecturer in the General and Interdisciplinary Program of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, received her doctorate from the Porter School of Cultural Studies of Tel Aviv University in 2000. Since 1993 she has been engaged in various Israeli-German research projects on Jewish modernization, the Haskalah, and Jewish child culture. Her recent publications include "Haskalah Scientific Knowledge in Hebrew Garment: A General Statement and Two Examples," Target 19(1) (2007): 69-83 and "Intercultural Contacts in Maskilic Texts about Sciences," pp. 29-42 in Shmuel Feiner and Israel Bartal, eds., The Varieties of Haskalah (Heb.) (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005).
Email: talkog@post.tau.ac.il
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
Gerd Mentgen teaches medieval history as a Privatdozent at the [End Page 2] University of Trier, Germany. He has published many articles, especially on Jewish history, and several monographs, including Studien zur Geschichte der Juden im mittelalterlichen Elsass (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1995) and Astrologie und Öffentlichkeit im Mittelalter (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2005).
Email: mentgen@uni-trier.de
Shlomo Sela is a lecturer in the departments of Jewish Philosophy and Bible at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Jewish attitudes toward the sciences, with special interest in the history of astrology in the Middle Ages. He has recently published Abraham Ibn Ezra: The Book of Reasons, A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Two Versions of the Text (Leiden: Brill, 2007)-the first volume in a projected edition and translation of Ibn Ezra's complete works on astrology.
Email: Shelomo.sela@gmail.co.il
Renate Smithuis is a research associate in the AHRC Rylands Cairo Genizah Project at the John Rylands University Library of the University of Manchester. She is also a part-time lecturer at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. Her recent publications include "Abraham Ibn...
