Lecture: Yoav Meyrav

Abstract
The past years have seen a dramatic increase in the availability and accessibility of manuscripts to the scholarly community. This welcome development offers a wide range of new scholarly opportunities, accompanied by a surge in publications, projects, and research environments. The study of manuscripts enriches significantly our understanding of philosophy, revealing a realm of intellectual activity that is too often excluded from the way philosophy is taught nowadays. The present lecture will reflect in particular on the study of Hebrew philosophical manuscripts, a product of a marginalized intellectual community which nonetheless plays a bridging role between the dominant linguistic traditions surrounding it. With the aid of several examples and methodological considerations, I will suggest some implications that the study of the Hebrew corpus may have on the historiography of medieval philosophy in general.

Yoav Meyrav is the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project HEPMASITE ("Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement") at the Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg. His research focuses on philosophy and translation on the Greek-Arabic-Hebrew trajectory, with special emphasis on metaphysics and manuscript studies.