Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction - Gregory T. Doolan -- Part One. The Subject Matter of Metaphysics -- 1. The Science of Being as Being in Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wippel - Robert Sokolowski -- 2. The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late Antiquity - D…
A collection of papers in honor of John F. Wippel. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: The science of being as being in Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wippel / Robert Sokolowski -- The transformation of metaphysics in late antiquity / Dominic O'Meara -- Why is me…
Ramon Martí, a thirteenth-century Spanish Dominican, was a linguist, missionary, emissary, and scholar. He mastered Arabic and Hebrew, and composed Christian polemical works against Islam and Judaism. He traveled the Mediterranean world and interacted with the kings of Aragon, F…
This dissertation investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia.…
