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The lecture will outline several ways in which Hebrew manuscripts function as mediators of Arabic philosophy.

The lecture focused on smaller details in Hebrew manuscripts and then moved to an ambitious argument pertaining to manuscripts of philosophy in general.

The lecture outlined the scope and magnitude of philosophical literature in Hebrew before and/or outside print using a post-protagonist, itemized approach which privileges codices over authors.

The lecture examined the genres through which medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy was conveyed, including treatises, commentaries, dialogues, poems and sermons, as well as the significant role of the printing press in the dissemination of Jewish philosophy, both in Hebrew and in Latin.

The lecture explored how phenomena in the Hebrew manuscripts of each of Averroes's commentaries on the Metaphysics cast doubt concerning what he argues for.

The lecture focused on the Hebrew manuscript transmission of the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics.

The lecture focused on the role of women as copyists, printers and readers of Hebrew manuscripts and early print.

The lecture focused on the Hebrew manuscript tradition on natural philosophy and its wider impact on the history of western philosophy.

The lecture focused on female agency in the Jewish history of patronage, manuscript production, and early print.

The lecture explored what we can learn about a translator’s approach to a philosophical text through his working notes.

The lecture attempted to make sense of a group of philosophical excerpts inserted within three manuscripts that contain all of Averroes’s epitomes in Hebrew.

The lecture dealt with the question how two distinct medieval Hebrew translations of the same work found themselves merged into one and the philosophical implications of this process.

The lecture attempted to reconstruct an intellectual personal of an anonymous scholar by analyzing the critical manner in which he approach a metaphysical text he copied.

The lecture sketched the twists and turns of the Arabic text and Hebrew translation of Averroes’s epitome of the Metaphysics until it reached the form in which it was available to Mantino for his Latin translation.

The lecture analyzed an original philosophical argument found as an interpolation in a manuscript of a metaphysical work.