Dr. Oded Pesah Horezky
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
CV
- since 2017 Research Associated, “Averroes Edition”, Thomas-Institut, University of Cologne, Germany
- 2017 PhD, Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel
- 2016 Arabic Language Studies, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 2014-2015 Research Associated, Digital Averroes Research Environment, Thomas-Institut, University of Cologne, Germany
- 2013 “Tikvah Fellow,” Tikvah Fund, New York, NY, USA
- 2008 M.A. - summa cum laude, Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel
- 2006 B.A. - summa cum laude, Philosophy and Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, Israel
Research
Fields of Research
- Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Theology
- History and Philosophy of Medieval Science
- Philosophy and Science in the Medieval Islamic Civilization
- Philosophy and Science in the Medieval Islamic Civilization
- Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Current Research Project
- Head Hebrew Editor in the “Averroes-Edition” Project, North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts and the Thomas-Institute at the University of Cologne:
I am currently working on my Critical Edition of the Hebrew Translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics.
averroes.uni-koeln.de
Academic Societies
- EAJS: The European Association for Jewish Studies
Conferences and Presentations
- "Habitus in Averroes's Long Commentary on Aristotle's Physics I.60 (Hebrew) / Prologue to Book III (Latin)", Averroes Workshop 'New Perspectives on Averroes', Köln, 28. September 2023.
- "Philosophy and Law in Maimonides and Gersonides: Philosophical Interpretation to the Reason for the Commandments and the Question of Radicalism", XV International Congress of Medieval Philosophy of the SIEPM: ‚La pensée radicale au Moyen Age‘, Paris, 22.-26. August 2022.
- "Gersonides’ Philosophical Optimism and the Science of the Stars", Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, 15. Juni 2022.
- "Presentation on Manuscript Database", [special session in] International Conference: ‚Philosophy in Scripture: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period‘, OCHJS, University of Oxford, 13. Juni 2022.
- "Biblical Law in Medieval Provence: Science vs Politics", International Conference: ‚Philosophy in Scripture: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period‘, OCHJS, University of Oxford, 13. Juni 2022.
- "MS Hatton or. 78 (Oxford or. 155) of the Bodleian Library: A Window to Jewish Philosophical Culture in the Renaissance", Seminar in Advances Jewish Studies, The Bodleian Library (Weston Library), Oxford, University of Oxford, 20. Mai 2022
- (zusammen mit Steven Harvey) „Averroes ex Averroe: Uncovering Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Method of Commenting on the Commentator“, in: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 21/1 (2021).
- “Climate Theory in Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” Medicine and Philosophy: Climate, International Workshop, University of Groningen, March 19-20, 2020.
- (zusammen mit Steven Harvey) “From Translator to Commentator: Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Presentation of Aristotle’s Organon,” Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Cultures: Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, International Conference, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem / Bar-Ilan University, June 2-4, 2019.
- & Steven Harvey, “Variations and Consistencies in Hebrew Scientific Terminology: Hebrew Versions of Aristotle’s Physics in the 13th and 14th Century,” Translating Ibn Rushd into Hebrew, Third PESHAT International Conference, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, February 12-14, 2019.
- “The Hebrew Translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’ Physics, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University,” Critical Editions of Medieval Philosophic Translations - Challenges and Opportunities, International Conference, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem / Tel Aviv University, July 23-27, 2018.
- –, Steven Harvey, “Averroes ex Averroe: Uncovering Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Method of Commenting on the Commentator,” In Memoriam Mauro Zonta II, Ṭodros Ṭodrosi: Fourteenth-century Translator, Commentator, Philosopher‚ The 11th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, July 15-19, 2018.
- “Gersonides’ Astrological Principles and the Number of the Stars,” Law and Order: The Status of Natural Regularities before the Scientific Revolution, International Workshop, Israel Science Foundation, Tel-Hai College, Israel, November 20-22, 2017.
- Responsio to Dr. Julie R. Klein: “From the Medieval to the Modern: Spinoza’s Appropriation of Gersonides’ Theory of Knowing,” The Place of Intellect in Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Arabic, Latin, Hebrew Perspectives, International conference, Thomas-Institute, University of Cologne, 15-16 February 2016.
- “Natural Sciences and Divine Law in Maimonides and Gersonides,” The Thomas-Institute Colloquium, University of Cologne, July 1, 2014.
- –, Cedric Cohen Skalli, “A 15th-Century Reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel and the Question of Providence and Astral Influences,” Gersonides Through the Ages, International Conference, The University of Geneva, February 17-20, 2014.
- “Error in Prophecy: Gersonides on Abraham’s Error: Astronomy, Astrology, Theology & Hermeneutics,” The Seventh Annual Congress of the Philosophy Department, University of Haifa, June 2012.
- “How to Read Jewish Medieval Philosophy,” Department of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, April 2011.
- “Does the Divine Law Can Always Be Good? – The Maimonidean Case,” Department of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, June 2011.
- “Solomon Maimon's Critique of Mendelssohn as a Gate for the Relation between Belief and Reason in Maimonides and Kant,” The Fifth Annual Congress of the Philosophy Department, University of Haifa, June 2010.
- “Why is Gersonides’ Critique of the Talmud’s 13 Rules of Inference (midot) a Conservative View?” Department of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, May 2009.
- “Maimonides, Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk & Y. Leibowitz,” Department of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa, 2009.
- “Philosophy as Heresy in Medieval Jewish Thought,” The Third Annual Congress of the Philosophy Department, University of Haifa, June 2008.
Publications
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0068-7879
I. Monographs | Editions | Translations
- –, Steven Harvey “From Translator to Commentator: Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Presentation of Aristotle’s Organon,” Studia graeco-arabica 11 (2021) [forthcoming].
- “Gersonides’ Epistemological Optimism, Astrophysical Principles and the Number of the Stars: Uncovering Gersonides’ Critique of ‘Some Scholars’ in the Astronomy 52” [forthcoming].
- –, Steven Harvey, “Variations and Consistencies in Hebrew Scientific Terminology: Hebrew Versions of Aristotle’s Physics in the 13th and 14th Century,” in: Translating Ibn Rushd into Hebrew. Officina Philosophica Hebraica III, Brill 2021 [forthcoming].
- –, Steven Harvey, “Averroes ex Averroe: Uncovering Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s Method of Commenting on the Commentator,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 21 (2021).
[https://doi.org/10.2979/aleph.21.1.0007] - –, Cedric Cohen Skalli, “A Fifteenth-Century Reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel, Providence, Astral Influences, Active Intellect, and Humanism,” Ofer Elior, Gad Freudenthal, and David Wirmer (eds.) Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries. Officina Philosophica Hebraica Volume 2, Brill 2020.
[https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425286_007]