Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters

Charles H. Manekin (PhD, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, USA.  He specializes in the history of philosophy, specifically medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, and the history of Hebrew logic. He is the author of books on Maimonides and Gersonides, translations of medieval Jewish philosophers, and the editor of several collections of articles. Together with Y. Tzvi Langermann and Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, he received a NEH Collaboration Grant for translating and updating Moritz Steinschneider’s The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Age, vol. 1 of which has appeared (Springer, 2013).Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt (PhD, Göttingen)  is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the Seminar für Orientalistik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He specializes in the history of Arabic philosophy, science, and medicine. He is the author of Galen’s Treatise “That The Faculties of the Soul follow the Mixtures of the Body” in Arabic Translation (German) and numerous articles on Greek scientific literature in Arabic translation, and on classical Arabic literature and intellectual history.