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Translations by Samuel Ibn Tibbon
- Sonne, Isaiah, “Maimonides’ Letter to Samuel b. Tibbon
according to an Unknown Text in the Archives of the Jewish Community
of Verona,” [Hebrew], Tarbiz, 10 (1939): 135–54,
309–32. (Scholar)
- Maimonides, Treatise on Resurrection (Maqâla fî
Tehiyyat ha-Metim): The Original Arabic and Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s
Hebrew Translation and Glossary, Joshua Finkel (ed.), New York:
American Academy for Jewish Research, 1939. (Scholar)
- Maimonides, Eight Chapters, J. Gorfinkle (ed. and
trans.), New York: Columbia University Press, 1912.
- Maimonides, Commentary on the Mishnah, Abot, M.
Rabinowitz (ed.), Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1961.
- Maimonides, Moreh ha-Nevukhim, Y. Even-Shemuel (ed.),
Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1987.
- Maimonides, Moses Maimonides’ Epistle to Yemen: The
Arabic Original and the Three Hebrew Versions, A. Halkin (ed.),
B. Cohen (trans.), New York: American Academy for Jewish Research,
1952. (Scholar)
- Otot ha-Shamayim: Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Hebrew Version of
Aristotle’s Meteorology, Resianne Fontaine (ed. and
trans.), Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. (Scholar)
- Averroes and ‘Abd Allah, “Three Treatises on
Conjunction,” J. Hercz (ed. and trans.), Drei Abhandlungen
über die Conjunction des seperaten Intellects mit dem Menschen
von Averroes (Vater und Sohn), aus dem Arabischen übersetzt von
Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Berlin: H. G. Hermann, 1869. (Scholar)
- Burnett, Charles and Zonta, Mauro, “Abu Muhammad
‘Abdallah Ibn Rushd (Averroes Junior), On Whether the Active
Intellect Unites with the Material Intellect whilst it is Clothed with
the Body: A Critical Edition of the Three Extant Medieval Versions
together with an English Translation,” Archives
d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen
âge, 67 (2000): 295–335. (Scholar)
Writings by Samuel Ibn Tibbon
- “Letter on Providence,” Zvi Diesendruck (ed.),
“Samuel and Moses Ibn Tibbon on Maimonides’ Theory of
Providence,” Hebrew Union College Annual, 11 (1936):
341–66 (Scholar)
- Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot, Appendix to Maimonides,
Moreh ha-Nevukhim, Y. Even-Shemuel (ed.), Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav
Kook, 1987.
- “Annotations on the Guide”, Carlos Fraenkel
(ed.), From Maimonides to Samuel Ibn Tibbon: the transformation of
the Dalâlat al-Hâ’irîn to the Moreh
ha-Nevukhim, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2007. (Scholar)
- Preface to the commentary on Ecclesiastes, Ruth Ben-Meir (ed.),
“Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Preface to the Commentary on
Ecclesiastes,” Maimonidean Studies, 4 (2000):
13–44 [Hebrew section]. (Scholar)
- Commentary on Eccl 1:1, James T. Robinson (ed. and trans.),
“Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes and the
Philosopher’s Prooemium,” in Studies in Medieval
Jewish History and Literature (Volume 3), I. Twersky and J. M.
Harris (eds.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, pp.
83–146. (Scholar)
- Complete Commentary on Ecclesiastes, James Robinson (ed.),
Sefer Nefesh ha-Adam: Perush Qohelet li-Shemuel ben Yehudah Ibn
Tibbon. Critical edition of the Hebrew text with introduction, notes,
apparatus, and indices. Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies,
The David and Amalia Rosen Foundation, Sources for the Study of Jewish
Culture, 2016.
- Complete English translation of the Commentary on Ecclesiastes, in
Robinson 2007a.
- Preface to the translation of Maimonides, Commentary on Avot,
Menahem Kellner (ed.), “Maimonides and Samuel Ibn Tibbon on
Jeremiah 9:22–23 and Human Perfection,” in Studies in
Halakhah and Jewish Thought Presented to Rabbi Professor Menahem
Emanuel Rackman on His Eightieth Birthday, M. Beer (ed.),
Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1994, pp. 49–57. (Scholar)
- Ma’amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim, M. Bisliches (ed.),
Pressburg: Anton Edler von Schmid, 1837. (Scholar)
- Ma’amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim, critical edition with
analysis in Rivka Kneller, Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Ma’amar
Yiqqawu ha-Mayim: A Philosophical and Exegetical Treatise, Ph.D.
Dissertation, Tel-Aviv University, 2011. (Scholar)
Secondary works
- Altmann, Alexander, 1967, “The Ladder of Ascension,”
in Studies in Mysticism and Religion Presented to Gershon G.
Scholem on his Seventieth Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and
Friends Jerusalem: Magnes Press, pp. 1–32. (Scholar)
- Ben-Meir, Ruth, 2000, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Preface to
the Commentary on Ecclesiastes,” Maimonidean Studies,
4: 13–44 [Hebrew section]. (Scholar)
- Eisen, Robert, 2004, The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 79–110. (Scholar)
- Fontaine, Resianne, 1997, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s
Translation of the Arabic Version of Aristotle’s
Meteorology,” in The Ancient Tradition in Christian and
Islamic Hellenism, G. Endress and R. Kruk (eds.), Leiden:
Research School CNWS, pp. 85–100. (Scholar)
- Fraenkel, Carlos, 2007, From Maimonides to Samuel Ibn Tibbon:
the Transformation of the Dalâlat al-Hâ’irîn
to the Moreh ha-Nevukhim, Jerusalem: Magnes Press [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “The Problem of
Anthropomorphism in a Hitherto Unknown Passage from Samuel Ibn
Tibbon’s ‘Ma’amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim’ and in a
Newly Discovered Letter by David ben Saul,” Jewish Studies
Quarterly, 11: 83–126. (Scholar)
- Fraisse, Otfried, 2004, Moses Ibn Tibbons Kommentar Zum
Hohenlied Und Sein Poetologisch-Philosophisches Programm, Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter. (Scholar)
- Freudenthal, Gad, 1993, “Les Sciences dans les
communautés juives médiévales de Provence: Leur
appropriation, leur rôle,” Revue des Etudes
Juives, 152: 29–136 (Scholar)
- –––, 1991, “(Al-)Chemical Foundations for
Cosmological Ideas: Ibn Sînâ on the Geology of an Eternal
World,” in Physics, Cosmology, and Astronomy,
1300–1700: Tension and Accommodation, S. Unguru (ed.),
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 47–73. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, “Samuel ibn Tibbon’s
Avicennian Theory of an Eternal World,” Aleph, 8:
41–129 (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “‘The Gathering of the
Waters’: A Watershed Issue in the Torah/Philosophy Controversy
in 13th-Century European Judaism: Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Jacob Ben Sheshet
and Menahem Ha-Meiri,” Daat, 74–75: 267–298
(Hebrew). (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon as the Author of Melakah Qetanah, the Hebrew Translation from Arabic of Galen’s Tegni: Probes into the Evolution of his Philosophical Vocabulary,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 26: 27–43. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “Why Translate? View from
within Judaism: Egodocuments by Translators from Arabic and Latin into
Hebrew (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries),” in Why Translate
Science? Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the
Historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic), Dimitri Gutas (ed.),
Brill, pp. 544–683. (Scholar)
- Freudenthal, Gad and Resianne Fontaine, 2016, “Philosophy and Medicine in Jewish Provence, Anno 1199: Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Doeg the Edomite Translating Galen’s Tegni,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 26: 1–26. (Scholar)
- Halbertal, Moshe, 2000, Between Torah and Wisdom: Menahem
ha-Me’iri and the Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence
Jerusalem: Magnes Press [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Heller-Wilensky, Sarah, 1969, “Towards the Study of Isaac
Ibn Latif’s Sources,” in Proceedings of the Fourth
World Congress of Jewish Studies (Volume II), Jerusalem: World
Union of Jewish Studies, pp. 317–326 [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Kneller-Rowe, Rebecca, 2023, “Scepticism in Samuel Ibn
Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Perush Qohelet),”
in Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion 2:
203–246. (Scholar)
- Kreisel, Haim, 2000, Ma‘aseh Nissim by R. Nissim of
Marseilles, Jerusalem: Mekize Nirdamim. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, Levi b. Abraham b. Hayyim, Liwyat
Hen 6:3 Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies. (Scholar)
- Kugel, James, 1979, “Some Medieval and Renaissance Ideas
about Biblical Poetry,” in Studies in Medieval Jewish
History and Literature, I. Twersky (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, pp. 57–81. (Scholar)
- Kupfer, E., 1975, “An Old Translation of Maimonides’
Commentary on the Mishnah, Tractate Sanhedrin, Chapter Heleq,”
‘Ale Sefer, 1: 59–80 [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Lévy, Tony, 1997, “The Establishment of the Mathematical Bookshelf of the Medieval Hebrew Scholar: Translations and Translators,” Science in Context, 10: 431–51 (Scholar)
- Ravitzky, Aviezer, 1978, The Thought of Rabbi Zerahyah b.
Isaac b. She’altiel Hen and Maimonidean-Tibbonian Philosophy in
the Thirteenth Century [in Hebrew], Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew
University. (Scholar)
- –––, 1981, “On the Sources of Immanuel of
Rome’s Proverbs Commentary,” Qiryat Sefer, 56:
726–739 [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- –––, 1981, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the
Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed,”
Association of Jewish Studies Review, 6: 87–123. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, “The Secrets of the Guide of the Perplexed: Between the Thirteenth and the Twentieth Centuries,” in Studies in Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 159–207. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, “Aristotle’s Meteorology
and Maimonidean Exegesis of the Account of Creation” [in
Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 9:
225–250. (Scholar)
- Rigo, Caterina, 1996, Judah Romano’s Commentaries on the
Bible: His Philosophical System as Contained in Them and His Sources
in Jewish Thought and Christian Scholasticism, Ph.D.
Dissertation, Hebrew University [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Robinson, James T., 2000a, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes and the Philosopher’s Prooemium,” in Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature (Volume 3), I. Twersky and J. Harris (eds.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 83–146. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000b, “Gershom ben Solomon’s
Sha‘ar ha-Shamayim: Its Sources and Use of Sources,” in
The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy,
S. Harvey (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.
248–274. (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, “The First References in Hebrew
to al-Bitrûjî’s On the Principles of
Astronomy,” Aleph, 3: 145–163. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, “The Ibn Tibbon Family: A
Dynasty of Translators in Medieval Provence,” in
Be’erot Yitzhak: Studies in Memory of Isadore Twersky,
J. Harris (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.
193–224. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, “From Digression to
Compilation: Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Immanuel of Rome on Genesis 1:11,
1:14, 1:20,” Zutot, 4: 81–97. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007a, Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes, The Book of the Soul of Man, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007b, “Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy,” in Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and his Influence, Jay M. Harris (ed.), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 291–306. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007/2008, “We Drink only from the
Master’s Water: Maimonides and Maimonideanism in Southern
France, 1200–1306,” in Epigonism in Jewish
Culture, Shlomo Berger and Irene Zwiep (eds.), Studia
Rosenthaliana, 40: 27–60. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009a, “Soul and Intellect in
Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” in The Cambridge History of
Jewish Philosophy, S. Nadler and T. Rudavsky (eds.), Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 524–558. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009b, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot and al-Fārābī’s Eisagoge and Categories,” Aleph, 9: 41–76 (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2009, The Cultures of Maimonideanism: New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought, Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “On or Above the Ladder?
Maimonidean and anti-Maimonidean Interpretations of Jacob’s
Ladder,” Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays,
Daniel Davies and Charles Manekin (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 85–98. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019a, “Moreh ha-Nevukhim: The First Hebrew Translation of The Guide of the Perplexed,” Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed,Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth , Josef Stern, James Robinson, Yonatan Shemesh (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 35–54. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019b, “Lexicons and Lexicography in
Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” Medieval Jewish Philosophy and
Its Literary Forms, Aaron Hughes and James T. Robinson (eds.),
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 313–336. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “Secrets of Qohelet: Toward an Exegetical History of a Biblical Text during the Middle Ages,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 30: 90–113. (Scholar)
- –––, 2024, “Allegorical Readings of
Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: The Ten Rulers in the City
as Body Parts, Celestial Spheres, Psychic Faculties, or Internal and
External Senses,” in Religious and Intellectual Diversity in
the Islamicate World and beyond: Essays in Honor of Sarah
Stroumsa, Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Brill, vol.
2, pp. 1191–1214. (Scholar)
- Schwartz, Dov, 2000, “Kuzari Commentators in
Fifteenth-Century Provence,” in Studies in Medieval Jewish
History and Literature (Volume 3), I. Twersky and J. M. Harris
(eds.), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, The Philosophy of a
Fourteenth-Century Jewish Neoplatonic Circle, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi
Institute and Bialik Institute [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, Studies in Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought, Leiden: E. J. Brill. (Scholar)
- Septimus, Bernard, 1982, Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Sermoneta, Joseph, 1977, “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Critical
Remarks on Maimonides’ Theory of Intellects,” in
Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies
(Volume III), Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, pp.
315–319 [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Shatzmiller, Joseph, 1977, “Contacts et échanges
entre savants juifs et chrétiens á Montpellier vers
1300,” in Juifs et judaïsme de Languedoc, Cahiers de
Fanjeaux, 12: 337–344. (Scholar)
- –––, 1982/1983, “In Search of the
‘Book of Figures’: Medicine and Astrology in Montpellier
at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century,” Association of
Jewish Studies Review, 7–8: 383–407. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, Jews, Medicine, and Medieval
Society, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Sirat, Colette, 1979, “La Pensée philosophique de
Moïse Ibn Tibbon,” Revue des Etudes Juives, 138:
505–515. (Scholar)
- –––, 1976, “The Mar’ot of Elohim of
Hanokh b. Solomon al-Constantini,” Eshel Beer-Sheva, 1:
120–199 [Hebrew]. (Scholar)
- Stern, Gregg, 2000, “The Crisis of Philosophic Allegory in
Languedocian-Jewish Culture (1304-6),” in Interpretation and
Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period, Jon Whitman (ed.),
Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 187–207. (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, “Philosophy in Southern France: Controversy over Philosophical Study and the Influence of Averroes upon Jewish Thought,” in Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, D. Frank and O. Leaman (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 281–303. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Twersky, Isadore, 1968, “Aspects of the Social and Cultural
History of Provençal Jewry,” Journal of World
History, 11: 185–207; reprinted in Jewish Society
through the Ages, H. H. Ben-Sasson and S. Ettinger (eds.), New
York: Schoken Books, 1971, pp. 185–207. (Scholar)
- Vajda, Georges, 1959, “An Analysis of the Ma’amar
Yiqqawu ha-Mayim by Samuel b. Judah Ibn Tibbon,” Journal of
Jewish Studies, 10: 137–149. (Scholar)
- –––, 1968, Jacob b. Sheshet, Sefer Meshiv
Devarim Nekhohim, Jerusalem: Israel Academy. (Scholar)
- Zonta, Mauro, 1996, La filosofia antica nel Medioevo ebraico: La traduzioni ebraiche medievali dei testi filosofici antichi, Brescia: Paideia. (Scholar)