Review of: Colette Sirat, Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Jewish Culture During the Middle Ages, Brepols, Turnhout 2025 (Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence), 134 pp., ISBN: 9782503614915

De Doncker, Ellen
(2026) Mediterranea. International journal onthe transfer of knowledge — Vol. 11, p. 423-429 (2026)

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In Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Jewish Culture during the Middle Ages, Colette Sirat offers a work of remarkable clarity. Modest in length yet wide in chronological and geographical scope, this volume, published by Brepols in the series Studies on the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence, accomplishes something that has long been needed but rarely attempted: a synthetic account of philosophical pedagogy within medieval Jewish culture. Rather than rehearsing once more the doctrines of great thinkers in isolation, Sirat asks how philosophy was actually taught, transmitted, appropriated, and contested from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. The book represents the mature fruit of reflections she has developed over several decades, during which the theme of education in medieval Jewish contexts surfaced repeatedly in her scholarship and gave rise to a number of focused studies.
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De Doncker, E. (2026). Review of: Colette Sirat, Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Jewish Culture During the Middle Ages, Brepols, Turnhout 2025 (Studies on the Faculty of Arts: History and Influence), 134 pp., ISBN: 9782503614915. Mediterranea. International journal onthe transfer of knowledge, 11, 423-429. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/279357 (Original work published 2026)