Автор: Abraham Melamed

Abraham Melamed (Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University) is Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the University of Haifa in Israel, and holds the Wolfson Chair for the study of the Jewish Cultural Heritage. He has published numerous studies, mainly concentrating on Medieval and Renaissance Jewish intellectual history, history of ideas and political philosophy. His most recent books include The Black in Jewish Culture (Routledge, 2003); On the Shoulders of Giants: A History of the Debate between Moderns and Ancients in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Thought (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003); The Myth of the Jewish Origins of Science and Philosophy (Haifa University Press, 2010), Medieval Jewish Political Philosophy (Hebrew, 2011) and On a Deserted Island (Hebrew, 2012).