MRPR Volume 3: 2024

This volume features contributions byJeremy Alexander Green, Ilaria Briata, Yishai Deitcher, Rith von Bernuth, Lucas Oro Hershtein, Meirav Reuveny, Gal Sofer, Danielle Drori, Mahdi Ranaee, Idit Chikurel, and Gerald Hartung.

Open Access
[Link, Brill webpage]

Table of Contents

Maimonides on the Psychology of Leadership in the Mishneh Torah
Alexander Green

Rabbinic Manners [Derekh Ereṣ] and the Formation of Etiquette Literature in Medieval Europe
 Ilaria Briata

The Effect of Typology on the Character Judgment of Jacob and Esau in Naḥmanides’s Commentary
Yishai Deitcher

Paulus of Prague and Elchanon Paulus of Prague. The Self-Fashioning of a Jewish Convert in the Era of Confessionalisation
Ruth von Bernuth

“I Am Not Inferior to Them.” Solomon Ibn Daʾud’s Introductions to His Arabic-to-Hebrew Philosophical and Medical Translations
Lucas Oro Hershtein

The Secular Holy Tongue. The Orthodox Press, Jewish Education, and Modern Hebrew Language
Meirav Reuveny

"For Then Thou Shalt Make Thy Way Prosperous.” The Interplay of Scriptures, Sacredness, and Magical Practices
Gal Sofer

Translating Race. Hebrew Victorians and Benjamin Disraeli
Danielle Drori

Al-Ġazālī, Descartes, and Their Sceptical Problems
Mahdi Ranaee

Scepticism and Certainty in Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention
Idit Chikurel

What Is Wrong with Philosophical Terminology? Georg Simmel and Theodor W. Adorno on Epistemic Scepticism and Linguistic Criticism
Gerald Hartung