Between Two Worlds: The tractate "Light of the Nations" of the Last Jewish Scholastic Philosopher 'Ovadyah Sforno (1475 ca.-1550) in its Hebrew and Latin Version

“在两个世界之间”研究项目的主要目的是对犹太知识分子和著名圣经评论家奥巴迪亚·斯福尔诺(约1475-1550)所著的哲学书籍“国家之光”进行全面调查。该论文发表在1537年希伯来语，标题或‘阿明，作者本人翻译成拉丁文(Lumen Gentium(1548))。斯福尔诺的文本努力再现经典的学者论证形式(SUMMA)，并试图通过使用亚里士多德的方法颠覆和破坏自己的教义来驳斥阿维罗斯的亚里士多德主义，以提升犹太教条的宗教概念。研究项目的三个阶段中的第一个阶段提供了第一个批评版本的光，并伴随着开创性的英语翻译。第二阶段有助于对这项工作进行科学和哲学的评论。这一深入的研究揭示了学院派和犹太教哲学家对文本结构的强烈影响。此外，一个关于或‘Ammim(这里称为梅诺拉)在15世纪40年代产生的长篇评论是从手稿编辑，我们的发现导致其作者的身份：Elia di Nola别名di Butrio，医生，拉比，和斯福尔诺的学生。该项目的目的被扩大，包括对梅诺拉的评论，以及对迪诺拉的方法和他对斯福尔诺作品的广泛调查的详细阐述。它为研究奥巴迪亚·斯福尔诺的哲学和注释作品的接受情况提供了全新的途径。此外，新的发现有助于确认一篇关于诗篇的大量评论，其中包含大量关于斯福尔诺作品的引用，并将其归因于迪诺拉。这篇评论将由MoshéKravétz第一次编辑，作为他博士学位的一部分，在亚历山德罗·盖塔(Inalco，巴黎)和申请者的指导下。在项目的第三阶段，也是最后阶段，关于光的关键科学评论将由对斯福尔诺的术语、词典编纂和注释的研究来补充。对斯福尔诺术语的调查将与亚历山德罗·盖塔合作进行，他发现了一本希伯来语-意大利语词典的手稿，手稿是由一位匿名作者撰写的，该词典的主要来源是Ammim，这也将在我们的研究中得到考虑。这项研究的结果将与DFG的“语境中的PESHAT”项目分享。该项目将通过举办第三次研讨会来加强其与国际学术界的富有成效的合作，该研讨会讨论斯福尔诺思想中的注释和哲学之间的交叉。该项目的研究成果将于2021年出版三卷本。

The primary aim of the “Between Two Worlds” research project is to conduct a comprehensive inquiry on the philosophical book entitled Light of the Nations written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (c. 1475–1550). The treatise was published in Hebrew in 1537, with the title of Or ‘Ammim, and the author himself translated the work into Latin (Lumen Gentium (1548)). Sforno’s text strives to reproduce the classical Scholastic argumentation form (summa) and attempts to refute Averroes’ Aristotelianism by using the Aristotelian method to subvert and undermine its own doctrines in order to elevate Jewish dogmatic religious concepts.The first of three phases of the research project provided a first critical edition of the Light, accompanied by pioneering English translations. The second phase contributed to the creation of a scientific and philosophical commentary on the work. This in-depth study disclosed the strong influence of both Scholastic and Jewish philosophers on the structure of the text. Moreover, a lengthy commentary on Or ‘Ammim (called here Menorah) produced in the 1540s was edited from manuscript and our findings led to the identification of its author: Elia di Nola alias di Butrio, a physician, rabbi, and pupil of Sforno. The aim of the project was broadened both including a commentary on the Menorah and giving a detailed exposition of di Nola’s method and his extensive investigation of Sforno’s works. It provides completely new access to the study of the reception of Obadiah Sforno’s philosophical and exegetical oeuvre.Moreover, the new discoveries facilitated the identification of a voluminous commentary on the Psalms containing numerous references to Sforno’s oeuvre and its attribution to di Nola. This commentary will be edited for the first time by Moshé Kravétz as part of his PHD under the supervision of Alessandro Guetta (INALCO, Paris) and the applicant.In the project’s third and final phase, the pivotal scientific commentary on the Light will be supplemented by studies on Sforno’s terminology, lexicography, and exegesis. The enquiry into Sforno’s terminology will be undertaken in co-operation with Alessandro Guetta, who has discovered a manuscript of a Hebrew–Italian dictionary composed by an anonymous author mentioning Or ‘Ammim as its principal source which will also be taken into account in our research. The results of this study will be shared with the DFG “PESHAT in Context” project.The project will enforce its fruitful co-operation with the international academic community by hosting its third symposium dealing with the intersection between exegesis and philosophy in Sforno’s thought. The outcome of the project’s research will be published in a three-volume edition in 2021.