for Advanced Studies
First Conference of the Officina Philosophica Hebraica
4 April 2016
The PESHAT-project is holding: the first Conference of the Officina Philosophica Hebraica “Themes, Terminology, and Translation procedure in 12th century Jewish Philosophy”
“Themes, Terminology, and Translation procedure in 12th century Jewish Philosophy”
held by the PESHAT-project
Programme: 4th-6th April 2016
Monday, 4th April 2016
10 am - Guided tour of the Jewish Cemetery in Hamburg Altona with Dr. Michael Studemund-Halévy
(meeting point is the Maimonides Centre at 9.15 am)
2.30 pm - Opening and Introductory lecture:
Giuseppe Veltri
Toward a History of Hebrew Philosophical Dictionaries
Presentation:
Florian Dunklau
The PESHAT project and its database
4.30 pm - Keynote lecture:
Reimund Leicht
Yehudah Ibn Tibbon - Father of the Hebrew translation movement?
Tuesday, 5th April 2016
9.30 am - Panel 1: Judah ibn Tibbon; chair: Reimund Leicht
Gadi Charles Weber
Judah Ibn Tibbon's Translation of Geometrical Terms
Joost van der Lijn
The transfer of some Sufi terms into a Jewish environment
11.30 am - David Lemler
Mofet: From miracle to apodeixis
2 pm - Panel 2: Samuel ibn Tibbon I; chair: Daniel Davies
Michael Engel
Terminological issues in Ibn Tibbon’s Letter on Providence and translation to the Guide of the Perplexed
Stefan Goltzberg
Examination of Maimonides’ terminology in his justification of the decision to compile, codify and/or write down the Mishna (Oral Law)
4 pm - Yehuda Halper
From Opinion to Intellect: דעה and דעת in Samuel ibn Tibbon’s translation of the Guide
5 pm - Presentation of Hebrew manuscripts from the collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg with Dr. Walter Stork
Wednesday, 6th April 2016
9.00 am - Panel 3: Samuel ibn Tibbon II; chair: Michael Engel
Rebecca Kneller-Rowe
The terms Haya and Cherub in Medieval rationalistic Merchaba interpretation
Daniel Davies
Secrets of Faith and Secrets of the Torah: Why does Samuel ibn Tibbon distinguish them?
11 am - Panel 4: Moses ibn Tibbon; chair: Florian Dunklau
Resianne Smidt van Gelder-Fontaine
On Tibbonid terminology in texts on meteorology, focusing on Samuel and Moses Ibn Tibbon
Yoav Meyrav
Work in Progress: Moshe ibn Tibbon's Refinement of his Translation of Themistius' Paraphrase of Aristotle's Metaphysics XII
2 pm - Panel 5: Perspectives; chair: Giuseppe Veltri
Mauro Zonta
Some Comparative Aspects of Hebrew Philosophical Aristotelian Terminology in 13th-Century, with Respect to Arabic and Latin
Reimund Leicht
Between Judah Ibn Tibbon, Judah Cardenal and Shemuel ben Judah of Marseille: Textual and terminological problems of the Hebrew Sefer ha-Kuzari
4 pm - Giovanni Licata
The term mitpalsef in Jewish Philosophy and its particular use in Jewish Averroism
5 pm - Final discussion
For the programme for the conference as PDF please click here.