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This volume explores how language shapes and influences theological and philosophical doctrines through a specific historical case: the role of terminological choices in the Hebrew translation and transmission of the works of the twelfth-century Muslim philosopher Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Rushd, known in the Latin West as Averroes. It examines how particular terminological decisions can affect the overall meaning of a philosophical text or translation, how different terminological strategies serve to distinguish and define intellectual cultures, and why careful attention to terminology is essential for contemporary scholars reconstructing the intellectual history and cultural environments of medieval Jewish thought. Readers interested in Jewish philosophy, philosophical terminology, or, more broadly, the relationship between language, philosophy, and theology will find this volume especially valuable.
Price: $162.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004777392
Format: Hardcover
Michael Engelis Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg. After earning his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he held research positions at the Warburg Institute and Universität Hamburg. His research focuses on medieval and Renaissance Jewish philosophy in intercultural, interreligious, and interlinguistic contexts. His recent publications include “From Benevento to Pisa: The Hebrew Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on the De Anima” (Aleph, 2025).
Margherita Mantovani is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hebrew at the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum and an associated researcher at the Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes LEM - CNRS (UMR 8584) in Paris. In 2026 she will be Braginsky Fellow in Manuscript Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her recent publications include the monograph ll cabbalista aristotelico: Paolo Ricci tra Rinascimento e Riforma, (Rome 2024).
Margherita Mantovani is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hebrew at the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum and an associated researcher at the Laboratoire d'études sur les monothéismes LEM - CNRS (UMR 8584) in Paris. In 2026 she will be Braginsky Fellow in Manuscript Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her recent publications include the monograph ll cabbalista aristotelico: Paolo Ricci tra Rinascimento e Riforma, (Rome 2024).