Judah Romano's Hebrew Translation from Albert, De Anima III

TitleJudah Romano's Hebrew Translation from Albert, De Anima III
Publication TypeBook Chapter
AuthorsWilke, C.
EditorsFidora, Alexander, and et al
Book TitleLatin-Into-Hebrew
Year2013
Pages369-436
PublisherBrill
Place of PublicationLeiden
Volume2
ISBN Number9789004252875
Publisher link9789004252875
Abstract

Judah ben Moses Romano's most important translation from the works of Albert the Great is, as Steinschneider recognized, his long extract from the Liber tertius de anima, a paraphrastic commentary on the Aristotelian book. The Latin original is usually dated between 1254 and 1257. The translated portion of the text extends over slightly more than twenty-six chapters, to which the translator added one article from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. Jean-Pierre Rothschild calls cod. Parma 2629 the most complete collection of Judah's Latin-Hebrew translations. While his judgment regarding the quantity of texts is correct, one must add that the quality of the copying is not very satisfying. The intercalated chapter from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae was counter-checked with the Editio Leonina; while the author's edition adopts the division of paragraphs found here.

Unit: 
Department of Medieval Studies
Department of History
Jewish Studies Project