Porphyry’s First Definition of Difference in the Hebrew Logical Tradition, 2021
By: Charles Manekin
Title Porphyry’s First Definition of Difference in the Hebrew Logical Tradition
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal Studia graeco-arabica
Volume 11
Issue 2
Pages 107–124
Categories Tradition and Reception, Boethius
Author(s) Charles Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Although most students during the Middle Ages began their study of the Organon with Porphyry’s summary of the predicables in the Isagoge, Jewish students in Christian lands studied it mostly via Averroes’ paraphrase or “Middle Commentary”, since Porphyry’s text was not translated into Hebrew. The popularity of Averroes’ paraphrase was impressive; it is extant in over 80 Hebrew manuscripts, upon which there are thirteen extant Hebrew commentaries. This article introduces and illustrates those commentaries by taking one short passage from Averroes and seeing how it was subsequently interpreted. It argues that there was a Hebrew commentarial tradition in which later commentaries built upon earlier ones, which migrated with itinerant scholars. It also shows the influence of the Latin translation of Porphyry, chiefly that of Boethius, which differs from the paraphrase. And finally, it distinguishes the commentary of Judah Messer Leon (15th c. Italy) from its predecessors in its whole-scale adaption of Christian commentarial practices.

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Maimonides on Divine Knowledge. Moses of Narbonne's Averroist Reading, 2002
By: Charles H. Manekin
Title Maimonides on Divine Knowledge. Moses of Narbonne's Averroist Reading
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 76
Pages 51–74
Categories Averroism, Maimonides
Author(s) Charles H. Manekin
Publisher(s)
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Modal Logic and the Theory of Modality in Gersonides, 1993
By: Charles H. Manekin
Title Modal Logic and the Theory of Modality in Gersonides
Type Article
Language English
Date 1993
Journal Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 42
Pages 347-381
Categories Logic, Gersonides, Aristotle, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Charles H. Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Preliminary Observations on Gersonides' Logical Writings, 1985
By: Charles Manekin
Title Preliminary Observations on Gersonides' Logical Writings
Type Article
Language English
Date 1985
Journal Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
Volume 52
Pages 85-113
Categories Logic, Gersonides, Commentary, Influence
Author(s) Charles Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Maimonides on Divine Knowledge. Moses of Narbonne's Averroist Reading, 2002
By: Charles H. Manekin
Title Maimonides on Divine Knowledge. Moses of Narbonne's Averroist Reading
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 76
Pages 51–74
Categories Averroism, Maimonides
Author(s) Charles H. Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Modal Logic and the Theory of Modality in Gersonides, 1993
By: Charles H. Manekin
Title Modal Logic and the Theory of Modality in Gersonides
Type Article
Language English
Date 1993
Journal Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 42
Pages 347-381
Categories Logic, Gersonides, Aristotle, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Charles H. Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Porphyry’s First Definition of Difference in the Hebrew Logical Tradition, 2021
By: Charles Manekin
Title Porphyry’s First Definition of Difference in the Hebrew Logical Tradition
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal Studia graeco-arabica
Volume 11
Issue 2
Pages 107–124
Categories Tradition and Reception, Boethius
Author(s) Charles Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Although most students during the Middle Ages began their study of the Organon with Porphyry’s summary of the predicables in the Isagoge, Jewish students in Christian lands studied it mostly via Averroes’ paraphrase or “Middle Commentary”, since Porphyry’s text was not translated into Hebrew. The popularity of Averroes’ paraphrase was impressive; it is extant in over 80 Hebrew manuscripts, upon which there are thirteen extant Hebrew commentaries. This article introduces and illustrates those commentaries by taking one short passage from Averroes and seeing how it was subsequently interpreted. It argues that there was a Hebrew commentarial tradition in which later commentaries built upon earlier ones, which migrated with itinerant scholars. It also shows the influence of the Latin translation of Porphyry, chiefly that of Boethius, which differs from the paraphrase. And finally, it distinguishes the commentary of Judah Messer Leon (15th c. Italy) from its predecessors in its whole-scale adaption of Christian commentarial practices.

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Preliminary Observations on Gersonides' Logical Writings, 1985
By: Charles Manekin
Title Preliminary Observations on Gersonides' Logical Writings
Type Article
Language English
Date 1985
Journal Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
Volume 52
Pages 85-113
Categories Logic, Gersonides, Commentary, Influence
Author(s) Charles Manekin
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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