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T1 - Are the medieval Hebrew translations of averroes' commentaries on Aristotle still of value and worth editing?
AU - Harvey, Steven
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - It is now almost eighty years since Harry A. Wolfson submitted his original "Plan for the Publication of a Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem" to the Mediaeval Academy of America. In this Plan Wolfson argued for the importance of scholarly editions of all of Averroes' commentaries, not only in the Arabic original, where available, but also in the medieval Hebrew and Latin translations, irrespective of whether or not the Arabic was still extant. The present paper considers to what extent it may be argued today that the medieval Hebrew translations of Averroes' commentaries are still of value and worth editing. Among the Hebrew translations of the commentaries that are examined are those for which Averroes' Arabic text is still extant, such as the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, and those for which it is not, such as the Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics.
AB - It is now almost eighty years since Harry A. Wolfson submitted his original "Plan for the Publication of a Corpus commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem" to the Mediaeval Academy of America. In this Plan Wolfson argued for the importance of scholarly editions of all of Averroes' commentaries, not only in the Arabic original, where available, but also in the medieval Hebrew and Latin translations, irrespective of whether or not the Arabic was still extant. The present paper considers to what extent it may be argued today that the medieval Hebrew translations of Averroes' commentaries are still of value and worth editing. Among the Hebrew translations of the commentaries that are examined are those for which Averroes' Arabic text is still extant, such as the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, and those for which it is not, such as the Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics.
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U2 - 10.1163/9789004235083_011
DO - 10.1163/9789004235083_011
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AN - SCOPUS:84965036787
T3 - Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus
SP - 195
EP - 210
BT - The Letter before the Spirit
A2 - van Oppenraay, Aafke M.I.
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -