The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle
Edited by Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay, Huygens ING in The Hague, with the collaboration of Resianne Fontaine, University of Amsterdam
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Biographical note
Aafke van Oppenraay, Ph.D. (1988), is a researcher at Huygens ING in The Hague. She is the editor of Michael Scot’s Arabic-Latin translation of Aristotle’s De animalibus and the author of several related articles.
Resianne Fontaine, Ph.D. (1986), is Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is on medieval Jewish philosophy and the history of science in medieval Judaism. She has edited Ibn Tibbon’s Hebrew version of Aristotle’s Meteorology.
Contributions by: Dimitri Gutas, Cristina D'Ancona, Hans Daiber, Charles Burnett, Hidemi Takahashi, Jens Schmitt, Alexander Fidora, Yossef Schwartz, Steven Harvey, Resianne Fontaine, Heidrun Eichner, Richard Taylor, Amos Bertolacci, Jules Janssens, Aafke van Oppenraay, Silvia Donati, Valérie Cordonier, Carlos Steel, George Kiraz, Paul Tombeur.
Resianne Fontaine, Ph.D. (1986), is Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is on medieval Jewish philosophy and the history of science in medieval Judaism. She has edited Ibn Tibbon’s Hebrew version of Aristotle’s Meteorology.
Contributions by: Dimitri Gutas, Cristina D'Ancona, Hans Daiber, Charles Burnett, Hidemi Takahashi, Jens Schmitt, Alexander Fidora, Yossef Schwartz, Steven Harvey, Resianne Fontaine, Heidrun Eichner, Richard Taylor, Amos Bertolacci, Jules Janssens, Aafke van Oppenraay, Silvia Donati, Valérie Cordonier, Carlos Steel, George Kiraz, Paul Tombeur.
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Historians of ancient and medieval Western and Islamic philosophy, historians of Aristotelian philosophy and its Semitico-Latin transmission, scholars of intellectual history, editors of scholarly editions.
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