Dr. Josefina Rodriguez Arribas

Since August 2024: PI of "Astronomy in Ashkenaz: Instrument Books from Latin into Hebrew," funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

2022–2024 Associate Professor, L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland)

2016–2020 Researcher, Institut für Jüdische Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.

2014–2015 Research Fellow, Excellence Cluster, Käte Hamburger Kolleg IKGF, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

2011–2014 Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK.

2009–2010 Fellow researcher, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA.

2009 Victor and Sylvia Blank Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, UK.

2008 Sofia Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK.

2005–2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

2004–2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

2003–2004 Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

• Société Européenne pour l'astronomie dans la culture
• Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval
• European Association of Jewish Studies
• European Society for History of Science
• Sociedad española de estudios medievales
• Asociación española de estudios hebreos y judíos
• Scientific Instrument Commission
• International Society for the Critical Study of Divination
• Asociación de Amigos del Museo Sefardad
• Commission on the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
• Comisión astronomía y cultura, Socieda española de astronomía

• 2022–2024 Associate Professor, L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland).
•  2016–2020 Researcher, Institut für Jüdische Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
• 2014–2015 Research Fellow, Excellence Cluster, Käte Hamburger Kolleg IKGF, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
• 2011–2014 Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK.
• 2009–2010 Fellow researcher, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA. 
• 2009 Victor and Sylvia Blank Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, UK.
• 2008 Sofia Fellow, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK.
• 2005–2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
• 2004–2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
• 2003–2004 Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

ASTRONOMY IN ASHKENAZ: INSTRUMENT BOOKS FROM LATIN INTO HEBREW

ARTICLES

• 2023    "A Newly Identified Manuscript on the Construction of the Astrolabe by Jacob Ben Abi Abraham Isaac Al-Corsuno (With Two Hebrew Appendixes Related to Corsuno’s Treatise)," Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 23.1-2: 241-346.
•  2023 (With Sara Bellido Sánchez), "Building Cosmographical Knowledge of the New World: Andrés de Alcántara and his Astrolabe Booklet," Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 73, issue 190: 80-143.
• 2022 "From Castile to Istanbul: Moses ben Abraham de Ciudad and His Treatise on the Uses of Astrolabes," SCIAMVS: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences 22 (2022): 1–194.
• 2022 (With Richard L. Kremer), "Practical Astronomy in Fourteenth-Century Provence: Immanuel ben Jacob of Tarascon and the Construction of Astrolabes (Study, Hebrew edition, and translation)," Suhayl–International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation 19 (2022): 175–285.
•  2020 (With Maud Kozodoy), "Josef Ṭaiṭaṣaq on the Construction of an Astrolabe: Study, Diplomatic Edition, and Annotated Translation," Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 20, no 1: 7–101.

BOOKS

• 2021 (With Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, eds), Unveiling the Hidden – Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, Leiden: Brill.
• 2019 (With Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, eds), Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures, Leiden: Brill (2nd edition).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• 2024    "Non-Verbal Aspects of Astrolabe Knowledge (15th–18th Century Hebrew Manuscripts)," in Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures, ed. Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisabeth Hollender, Katrin Kogman-Appel, and Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Brepols: Turnhout, 213–245.
•  2021 "Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya's Letter on Astrology," in Unveiling the Hidden – Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, ed. J. Rodríguez–Arribas and D. Gieseler Greenbaum, Leiden: Brill, 192–216.
• 2021 (With Amos Geula) "Abraham bar Hiyya's Letter to Judah Bar Barzillai – A Translation," in Unveiling the Hidden – Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, ed. J. Rodríguez– Arribas and D. Gieseler Greenbaum, Leiden: Brill, 217–260.
• 2021 "Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures—Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book," in Unveiling the Hidden – Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, ed. J. Rodríguez–Arribas and D. Gieseler Greenbaum, Leiden: Brill, 1–20.
• 2020 "Astral Sciences: Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World," in Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook, ed. Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, and Hans-Christian Lehner, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 516–531.
• 2020 "Mathematical Instruments in Astrology," in Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook, ed. Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, and Hans-Christian Lehner, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 861–873.
• 2020 "Medical Plates in Astrological Medicine," in Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook, ed. Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, and Hans-Christian Lehner, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 874–883.
• 2019 "The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary," (updated and enlarged version of the article in Medieval Encounters) in Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures, ed. Josefina Rodríguez- Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, Leiden: Brill, 45– 106.