Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
(c. 1310/20 – c. 1375) Physician and talmudic scholar. Although is not so well-known as Moshe ben Nahman or Solomon ben Adret, he is an outstanding figure in Medieval talmudic studies. Twelve of his derashot are extant and research about Ran is developping in last years. Editions: Derashot ha-Ran, ed. Leon Aryeh Feldman (Jerusalem: Shalem,…
Author of ‘Derashot ha-torah’ at the end of 15th century, published in Salonica in 1525. Not to be confused with his grandfather Shem Tov or with Shem Tov de Tudela, who lived in middle XIV century and wrote a wellknown Chronicle. Bibliography: SAPERSTEIN, Marc, «A sermon on the Akedah from the generation of the expulsion…
(siglo XIV) Not to be confused with with his grandson Shem Tov ibn Joseph ib Shem Tov, or with Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov (middle 15th century ). His chronicle: Ya’aqov Moshe Toledano, «Mi-Kitve Yad» (Hebrew) HUCA V (1928), p. 403-409. Gutwirth, Eleazar, «De Castellnou a Tlemcen: la crónica de Shem Tov de Tudela de…
At f. 77r.-85v. appears a Sermon by Cardinal Bessarion about St. Basil translated into Spanish. Bibliografía: Gómez Moreno, Ángel, “Manuscritos medievales de San Román”, en Varia Bibliographica. Homenaje a José Simón Díaz. Kasel, Reichenberger, 1988, p. 321-328, here 327 (GoogleBooks)
At f. 93r-127v. appear Sermons by St. Agustin translated into Spanish. Bibliography: RUIZ, Elisa, Catálogo de la sección de códices de la Real Academia de la historia. Madrid, Real Academia de la historia, 1997, pp. 323-46 (PDF)
Preacher and cabalist; flourished about 1328. He was the author of “Derashot al ha-Torah,” homilies on the Pentateuch printed in Constantinopla 1523 and Cracow c. 1575. HOROWITZ, Carmi, The Jewish Sermon in 14th Century Spain: The Derashot of R. Joshua ibn Shu’eib. Cambridge: Mass. Hardvard University Press, 1989. HOROWITZ, Carmi, «An unpublished sermon of R….
Books: Medieval Jews and the Christian Past, Jewish Historical Consciousness in Spain and Southern France. Translated from Hebrew by Chaya Naor. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2016. Articles: «Between Official and Private Dispute The Case of Christian Spain and Provence in the Late Middle Ages», AJS Review, 27-1 (Apr., 2003), pp. 23-71. «A minority…
When Rabbi Dr. Charles B. Chavel edited the following texts, he called them ‘Discourses’, as they are not similar to what we understand as a sermon. Nevertheless, they are usually called sermons, and they really share some features with Jewish religious discourses, so it is worth presenting them. Four of Nahmanides sermons have been preserved:…
Sermons: f. 64r. Sermón sobre los salmos penitenciales. f. 131r. Bibliography: Inventario de los manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 1995, tmo 10, p. 296. (PDF) SURTZ, R.E., Un sermón castellano del siglo xv, Barcelona, 1983 (Biblioteca Humanitas de Textos inéditos, l), p.75-101. DEYERMOND, A., “Problems of Language, Audience, and Arthurian Source in a Fifteenth…
Castilian Translation of sermons by St. Bernard.