Piet
Van Boxel
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship
Research Topic
For and Against Gersonides: The Reception of Ralbag's Bible Commentaries in the Early Modern Period
Bio
Piet Van Boxel is a Fellow at the Oriental Institute at Oxford University. His current research interests include Hebrew manuscripts and early Hebrew printing with special interest in ecclesiastical censorship of Hebrew books in 16th Century Italy. His article “Hebrew Books and Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” is forthcoming in 2013. At the Katz Center, Piet will research on the reception of Gersonides’(1299-1344) Bible commentaries during the early modern era.
