Howard Kreisel
Scholar of Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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Howard Kreisel's Degrees
- Masters Jewish Studies University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard "Haim" Kreisel is a professor of medieval Jewish philosophy in the department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Biography Howard Kreisel was born in New York in 1951. He received his B.A. at Brandeis University in 1972 and went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. at Brandeis in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. His doctoral dissertation, Theories of Prophecy in Medieval Jewish Philosophy was written under the supervision of Alfred Ivry. He taught medieval Jewish studies for three years at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College before moving to Israel in 1983. He has taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 1983 till 2019 and held the Miriam Martha Hubert Chair in Jewish Thought. In 1995-1996 he served as a visiting professor at the University of Calgary in the departments of religion and philosophy. Among his administrative positions he served as the first chair of the newly formed Goldstein-Goren department of Jewish thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev before assuming the position of directing the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought and editor of the series he founded, Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought . He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the new annual journal sponsored by the center, Jewish Thought . To date, 5 volumes have appeared.
Howard Kreisel's Published Works
Published Works
- Maimonides’ Political Philosophy (2005) (6)
- The Torah Commentary of R. Nissim ben Mosheh of Marseilles: On a Medieval Approach to Torah u-Madda (2016) (0)
- Maimonides (1138–1204) (2014) (0)
- A Medieval Jewish Philosophical View on Bioethics: The Case of Maimonides (2015) (0)
- Pegler, D. N., Agaric Flora of the Lesser Antilles. 667 S., 129 Abb., 27 Farbtaf. von J.-P. Fiard. Kew Bulletin Additional Series, IX. London, 1983. £ 55.00 (1986) (0)
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