Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology

Reimund Leicht, Ph.D. (2004), Free University, Berlin, is Ethel Backenroth Senior Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published monographs, editions and articles on Jewish Thought in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and on Johannes Reuchlin. Giuseppe Veltri, Ph.D. (1991), Free University, Berlin, is professor of Jewish Philosophy at the University of Hamburg and of Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig. His fields of research are Jewish Philosophy in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, Magic, and biblical tradition and translations. Among his publications are Language of Conformity and Dissent (2013); Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto (2013); Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009); Libraries, Translations, and ‘Canonic’ Texts (2006).

Preface to the Officina Philosophica Hebraica Subseries

 Editors: Reimund Leicht & Giuseppe Veltri



Preface to This Volume



The Study of Pre-modern Philosophical and Scientific Hebrew Terminology – Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

 Reimund Leicht and Giuseppe Veltri



Ibn Tibbon’s Secrets: Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Use of “Secrets of Torah” and “Secrets of Faith”

 Daniel Davies



The Roots שמר and שגח in the Works of Samuel Ibn Tibbon: a Terminological Shift

 Michael Engel



“Tibbonide Terminology” and Hebrew Meteorological Texts

 Resianne Fontaine



“For the Earth Shall Be Filled with deʿah”: Terminological Ambiguities and the Connection between Knowledge and Actions in Maimonides’s Commentary on the Mishnah and Mishneh Torah?

 Yehuda Halper



Judah Ibn Tibbon: the Cultural and Intellectual Profile of the “Father of the Hebrew Translation Movement”

 Reimund Leicht



Mofet: from Miracle to Scientific Proof

 David Lemler



The Term mitpalsef in Jewish Philosophy and Its Particular Use in Jewish Averroism

 Giovanni Licata



Arabic-into-Hebrew Translation Strategies and Procedures in the Hebrew Manuscript Tradition of Themistius’s Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics XII

 Yoav Meyrav



The Transfer of Some Sufi Terms into a Jewish Environment – Baḥya Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts and Its Translation by Judah Ibn Tibbon

 Joost van der Lijn



Remarks on an Ambiguous Geometric Term in Saadia Gaon’s Book of Beliefs and Opinions: šakl ṣanawbari/ṣūrah iṣṭrūbōlit

 Gadi Charles Weber



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