Dr. Lucas Oro Hershtein

During my time with the HEPMASITE project, I studied the manuscripts of the medieval Hebrew translations of Arabic philosophical texts, specifically focusing on the Hebrew translations of Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Book of Imaginary Circles. The study resulted in several findings, such as a reassessment of the intellectual portrait of the forgotten translator and scholar Solomon ibn Daud and the scholarly practices and ramifications of blending different translations into one new text.

Lucas Oro Herstein is now an Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellow at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid, where he is conducting his own research project, entitled “Kabbalah, Philosophy, and Power in the 14th and 15th Centuries Iberian Peninsula.”