"For he who'd make his fellow creature wise
Should always gild the philosophic pill"
-- W. S. Gilbert
Charles H. Manekin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and the director of undergraduate studies for the Philosophy Department. A fellow of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, he specializes in the history of philosophy, specifically medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy.
Manekin has authored The Logic of Gersonides (Kluwer 1991) and On Maimonides (Wadsworth 2004). He in an editor of The Routledge Jewish Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2000), Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives (University Press of Maryland , 1997), A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture: Essays in Honor of Arthur Hyman (Washington 1988) and numberous publications. For a complete list of publications click below.
In Press: Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), and Philosophers and the Bible (Maryland Universities Press), coedited with Robert Eisen
Charles H. Manekin -- List of Publications
I am on research leave at Penn this semester.
Manekin was recently awarded a three-year Collaboration Grant from the NEH to prepare a web-based translation and revision of the standard reference work on medieval Hebrew translations from the Arabic and the Latin, Moritz Steinschneider's Die Hebraeieschen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters . He is collaborating on this project with Y. Tzvi Langermann of Bar Ilan University and Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt of Bochum University. .