The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain

This intriguing text is one volume in the piece of a multi-year international research project: Inteleg: The Intellectual and Material Legacies of Late Medieval Sephardic Judaism (principal investigator Esperanza Alfonso, CSIC), which studies thirteenth and fifteenth century Iberian Jewish culture. The articles in this volume are associated with the international conference at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Madrid during October of 2009. This volume is comprised of an introduction and eleven articles within four sections: Literature and Art; Jewish Exegesis; Conversion and the Uses of Biblical Exegesis; and Liturgy and Translation. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jonathan Decter, Ph.D. (2002) in Medieval Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, is Associate Professor and Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies at Brandeis University. He is author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe (Indiana UP, 2007), which won the Salo W. Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies.Arturo Prats, Ph.D. (2004) in Semitic Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is assistant professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has published on Hebrew literature of the fifteenth century focussing on the work of the poet Shelomoh Bonafed including La disputa de Selomohh ben Reuben Bonafed con la aljama de Zaragoza (Granada 2010)