| Title | Gersonides as Commentator in the Light of his Supercommentary on Averroes's Epitome of the Physics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2022 |
| Journal | Revue des Études Juives |
| Volume | 181 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 185–222 |
| Categories | Tradition and Reception, Gersonides, Commentary, Method |
| Author(s) | Esti Eisenmann |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The article analyzes Gersonides (1288-1344) as a commentator, through the lens of his supercommentary on Averroes’s Epitome of Aristotle’s Physics. In the first section of the article, we question the assumption that this work is indeed a supercommentary and explain why it may nevertheless be included in the genre. In the second section, the article provides examples of Gersonides’ exegetical procedure. Given that the supercommentary on the Epitome of the Physics was the first supercommentary Gersonides wrote, the analysis of Gersonides’ methods sheds light on his image as an exegete and can help us determine his objective in commenting on this text and the readership he envisaged. He seems to be adressing readers who were taking their first steps in Aristotle’s works on nature and to have endeavored to guide them in this field. |
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| Title | Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Volume | 62 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism. |
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| Title | The Jews and the Irrational: Gersonides’ Treatment of Dreams, Divination and Prophecy |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M). Universalità della Ragione. Pluralità delle Filosofie nel Medioevo = Universalité de la Raison. Pluralité des Philosophies au Moyen Âge = Universality of Reason. Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages : 12. Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia Medievale : Palermo, 17-22 settembre 2007 |
| Pages | 217–227 |
| Categories | Gersonides |
| Author(s) | Roberto Gatti |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Biology |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329–352 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Commentary, Gersonides |
| Author(s) | Ahuva Gaziel |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| During the Middle Ages Aristotle’s treatises were accessible to intellectuals via translations and commentaries. Among his works on natural philosophy, the zoological books received relatively little scholarly attention, though several medieval commentators carefully studied Aristotle’s investigations of the animal kingdom. Averroes completed in 1169 a commentary on an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals and Generation of Animals. In 1323 Gersonides completed his supercommentary on a Hebrew translation of Averroes’ commentary. This article examines how these two medieval commentators interpret the first book of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals, at the center of which stand methodological questions regarding the study of animals. Aristotle’s discussion of classification is presented by Averroes and Gersonides in light of an epistemological debate concerning the requisite method for scientific inquiries and discoveries. Sense perception is contrasted with rational reasoning, and ultimately a combined method is proposed, sense perception maintaining supremacy. These commentators outline a clear link between the systematic arrangement of animal species as offered by Aristotle, and his subsequent logical demonstrations which, according to them, form the core of biological investigations. |
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| Title | Lewi Ben Gershom (Gersonide) commentatore di Averroè: il tema dell’immaginazione nel supercommentario al De Anima |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 2009 |
| Published in | Immaginario e immaginazione nel medioevo |
| Pages | 203-218 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Commentary, De anima |
| Author(s) | Roberto Gatti |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Aleph |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 235-257 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Commentary, Averroism, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ruth Glasner |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40385482 |
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| Title | Gersonides as Commentator in the Light of his Supercommentary on Averroes's Epitome of the Physics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2022 |
| Journal | Revue des Études Juives |
| Volume | 181 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 185–222 |
| Categories | Tradition and Reception, Gersonides, Commentary, Method |
| Author(s) | Esti Eisenmann |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The article analyzes Gersonides (1288-1344) as a commentator, through the lens of his supercommentary on Averroes’s Epitome of Aristotle’s Physics. In the first section of the article, we question the assumption that this work is indeed a supercommentary and explain why it may nevertheless be included in the genre. In the second section, the article provides examples of Gersonides’ exegetical procedure. Given that the supercommentary on the Epitome of the Physics was the first supercommentary Gersonides wrote, the analysis of Gersonides’ methods sheds light on his image as an exegete and can help us determine his objective in commenting on this text and the readership he envisaged. He seems to be adressing readers who were taking their first steps in Aristotle’s works on nature and to have endeavored to guide them in this field. |
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| Title | Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Volume | 62 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism. |
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| Title | Lewi Ben Gershom (Gersonide) commentatore di Averroè: il tema dell’immaginazione nel supercommentario al De Anima |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 2009 |
| Published in | Immaginario e immaginazione nel medioevo |
| Pages | 203-218 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Commentary, De anima |
| Author(s) | Roberto Gatti |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Aleph |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 235-257 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Commentary, Averroism, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ruth Glasner |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40385482 |
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| Title | Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Biology |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329–352 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Commentary, Gersonides |
| Author(s) | Ahuva Gaziel |
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| During the Middle Ages Aristotle’s treatises were accessible to intellectuals via translations and commentaries. Among his works on natural philosophy, the zoological books received relatively little scholarly attention, though several medieval commentators carefully studied Aristotle’s investigations of the animal kingdom. Averroes completed in 1169 a commentary on an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals and Generation of Animals. In 1323 Gersonides completed his supercommentary on a Hebrew translation of Averroes’ commentary. This article examines how these two medieval commentators interpret the first book of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals, at the center of which stand methodological questions regarding the study of animals. Aristotle’s discussion of classification is presented by Averroes and Gersonides in light of an epistemological debate concerning the requisite method for scientific inquiries and discoveries. Sense perception is contrasted with rational reasoning, and ultimately a combined method is proposed, sense perception maintaining supremacy. These commentators outline a clear link between the systematic arrangement of animal species as offered by Aristotle, and his subsequent logical demonstrations which, according to them, form the core of biological investigations. |
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| Title | The Jews and the Irrational: Gersonides’ Treatment of Dreams, Divination and Prophecy |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (S.I.E.P.M). Universalità della Ragione. Pluralità delle Filosofie nel Medioevo = Universalité de la Raison. Pluralité des Philosophies au Moyen Âge = Universality of Reason. Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages : 12. Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia Medievale : Palermo, 17-22 settembre 2007 |
| Pages | 217–227 |
| Categories | Gersonides |
| Author(s) | Roberto Gatti |
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