The philosophical and exegetical oeuvre, biography and legacy of the Jewish-Italian Renaissance Rabbi Obadiah Sforno (c. 1475–1550) are revisited for the first time by international scholars presenting in-depth studies on the thoughts of a man “between two worlds”.

Contents Prelude Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance  Giuseppe Veltri Part 1: Biography 2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and Charity  Andrew Berns 3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah Sforno  Saverio Campanini Part 2: Philosophy 4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the Intellect  Symon Foren 5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of Particulars  Steven Harvey 6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the World  Giada Coppola 7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio Dei  Warren Zev Harvey 8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin Priority  Florian Dunklau Part 3: Exegesis 9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia Sforno  Jean-Pierre Rothschild 10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical Works  Moshe Kravetz Part 4: Environment and Reception 11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century Bologna  Guido Bartolucci 12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms Commentary  Yael Sela Index