The Letter Before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle

The Letter before the Spirit underlines the importance for scholars to have at their disposal reliable scientific text editions - book editions or digital editions - of Aristotle's works in the Semitico-Latin, and the Graeco-Latin, translation and commentary traditions.

About the author

Aafke van Oppenraay, Ph.D. (1988), is a researcher at Huygens ING in The Hague. She is the editor of Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin translation of Aristotle's De animalibus and the author of several related articles.

Resianne Fontaine, Ph.D. (1986), is Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is on medieval Jewish philosophy and the history of science in medieval Judaism. She has edited Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew version of Aristotle's Meteorology.

Contributions by: Dimitri Gutas, Cristina D'Ancona, Hans Daiber, Charles Burnett, Hidemi Takahashi, Jens Schmitt, Alexander Fidora, Yossef Schwartz, Steven Harvey, Resianne Fontaine, Heidrun Eichner, Richard Taylor, Amos Bertolacci, Jules Janssens, Aafke van Oppenraay, Silvia Donati, Valérie Cordonier, Carlos Steel, George Kiraz, Paul Tombeur.

Product details

• Assisted by: Aafke M I Oppenraay (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 21.11.2012
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day
• EAN: 9789004234147
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23414-7
• Pages: 520
• Dimensions (packing): 16.3 x 23.9 x 3.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 885 g
• Series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus > 22
• Subjects: Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical