PUBLICATIONS
Books
Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, The Book of the Soul of Man. Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 20. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.

The Cultures of Maimonideanism: New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought, editor. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, 2009.

Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon b. Yeroham on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes).Critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic text with annotated English translation and introduction.Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, Karaite Texts and Studies, 2012.

Sefer Nefesh ha-Adam: Perush Qohelet le-Rabbi Shemuel b. 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. (forthcoming)

Establishing the Way of Peshat: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet b. 'Eli on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). Critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic text with annotated English translation and introduction. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, Karaite Texts and Studies. (in preparation)

"Scholastic" Exegesis in Tenth-Century Jerusalem: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of David b. Boaz on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). Critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic text with annotated English translation and introduction. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, Karaite Texts and Studies. (in preparation)

Articles, Chapters, Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries
1. "Gershom ben Solomon's Sha'ar ha-Shamayim: Its Sources and Use of Sources." In The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy, ed. Steven Harvey. Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought, volume 7. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 248-274.

2. "Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes and the Philosopher's Prooemium." In Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, volume 3, eds. Isadore Twersky and Jay M. Harris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. 83-146.

3. "Allegory." In The Reader's Guide to Judaism, ed. Michael Terry. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000, pp. 17-18.

4. "The First References in Hebrew to al-Bitruji's On the Principles of Astronomy," Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 3 (2003), pp. 145-163.

5. "Hasdai Crescas and Anti-Aristotelianism." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, eds. D. Frank and O. Leaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 391-413.

6. "Some Remarks on the Source of Maimonides' Plato in Guide of the Perplexed I.17," Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 3 (2004), pp. 41-49.

7. Review of Roger Arnaldez, Averroes: A Rationalist in Islam (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), for Early Science and Medicine 9 (2004), pp. 48-50.

8. Review of Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century, eds. Jurgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001), for Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science 1 (2004), pp. 90-105.

9. "The Ibn Tibbon Family: A Dynasty of Translators in Medieval Provence." In Be'erot Yitzhak: Studies in Memory of Isadore Twersky, ed. J. Harris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 193-224.

10. Review Essay: "Three Recent Books on Isaac Abarbanel/Abravanel (1437-1508/9)," Association of Jewish Studies Review 28 (2005), pp. 341-349.

11. Review of Majid Fakhry, Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works and Influence (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2001), for Early Science and Medicine 10 (2005), pp. 436-439.

12. "From Digression to Compilation: Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Immanuel of Rome on Genesis 1:11, 1:14, 1:20," Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 4 (2006), pp. 81-97.

13. "Samuel Ibn Tibbon," The Online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006), 21pp.

14. "The Argument from Barking Dogs: Ruminations on Bibfeldt and the Theology of Subaltern Species,"Criterion 45 (Spring, 2006), pp. 12-15, 25.

15.
"Translation: Arabic into Hebrew." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Josef W. Meri. New York and London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 821-823.

16. "Ibn Tibbon." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Second Edition. Eds. M. Berenbaum and F. Skolnik. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. Vol. 19, pp. 712-714.

17. (with Judah Galinsky) "Rabbi Jeruham b. Meshullam, Michael Scot, and the Development of Jewish Law in Fourteenth-Century Spain," Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007), pp. 489-504.

18. "Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy." In Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and his Influence. Ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007, pp. 291-306.

19. "We Drink only from the Master's Water: Maimonides and Maimonideanism in Southern France, 1200-1306." In Epigonism in Jewish Culture. Eds. Shlomo Berger and Irene Zwiep. Studia Rosenthaliana 40 (2007-2008), pp. 27-60.

20. "Ha-Rambam, Shemuel ibn Tibbon, ve-yetsiratah shel masoret filosofit yehudit," in Shamranut, Meqoriyut, Mahpekhanut, eds. A. Ravitzky (Zalman Shazar, 2008), pp. 579-593.

21. "Le-heqer te'oriyat ha-tirgum shel Shemuel ibn Tibbon ve-ziqqatah le-meqorot 'arviyim," in 'Ale 'asor, eds. H. Ben-Shammai and D. Lasker (Ben Gurion University Press, 2008), pp. 249-268.

22. "Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot and al-Farabi's Eisagoge and Categories," Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 9 (2009), pp. 41-76.

23. "Soul and Intellect in Medieval Jewish Philosophy." In The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy. Eds. S. Nadler and T. Rudavsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 524-558.

24. "Preface." In The Cultures of Maimonideanism: New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought. Ed. J. Robinson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, 2009, pp. vii-xii.

25. "Abraham in Medieval Judaism." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 1 (Walter de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 172-177.

26. "Albalag, Isaac." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 1 (Walter de Gruyter, 2009), 709-710.

27. "Philosophical Psychology, The Jewish Tradition," in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Ed. H. Langerlund. Dordrecht: Springer (2010), Part 16, pp. 982-990.

28. "Philosophy and Science in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Bible." In Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures, ed. Gad Freudenthal (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 454-475.

29. "Secondary Forms of Philosophy: On the Teaching and Transmission of Philosophy in Non-Philosophical Literary Genres," in Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture, eds. Carlos Fraenkel, Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis, Robert Wisnovsky. Turnhout Brepols Publishers, 2011, pp. 235-248.

30. "Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes in Hebrew: Remarks on the Indirect Transmission of Arabic-Islamic Philosophy in Medieval Judaism." In The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Explorations in the Abrahamic Traditions. Eds. Irfan Omar and Richard Taylor. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2012, pp. 59-87.

31. "A Jewish Classic for Muslims," online for Sightings (September 13, 2012).

32. "Interactions between Karaite and Rabbanite Thought in Spain and Byzantium," A Review of Daniel Lasker, From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi: Studies in Late Medieval Karaite Philosophy (E. J. Brill, 2008), in Jewish Philosophy: Perspectives and Retrospectives, eds. R. Jospe and D. Schwartz. Academic Studies Press, 2012, pp. 315-318.

33. "Reading other people reading other people's Scripture: The Influence of Religious Polemic on Jewish Biblical Exegesis,"English Language Notes 50:2 (2013), pp. 77-88 (Special Issue: "Scriptural Margins," ed. Sue Zemka).

34. "Secondary Forms of Transmission: Teaching and Preaching Philosophy in Thirteenth-Century Provence." In Exchange and Transmission across Cultural Boundaries: Philosophy, Mysticism, and Science in the Mediterranean World. Eds. H. Ben-Shammai, S. Shaked, and S. Stroumsa (forthcoming).

35. "Ecclesiastes: Medieval Jewish." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming).

36. "Arabic, Latin, and Romance into Hebrew: The Role of Translation in the Development of European Jewish Culture." In The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. VI, Jews and Judaism in the Christian World, Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries. Ed. Robert Chazan (forthcoming).

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