Y. Tzvi Langermann is Professor of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. Robert G. Morrison is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.

• ContentsY. Tzvi Langermann and Robert Morrison, “Introduction” Robert Morrison, “The Role of Oral Transmission for Astronomy among Romaniot Jews” Ofer Elior, “Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's ‘I Heard’: A Case Study in Byzantine Jews' Appropriation of Provencal-Jewish Philosophy and Science” Tzvi Langermann, “Gradations of Light and Pairs of Opposites: Two Theories and their Role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the Revealer” Leigh Chipman, “Cryptography in the Late Medieval Middle East: From Mosul to Venice?” Leonardo Capezzone, “On Memory: From the Humanism of pseudo-Ibn Al-Muqaffa’ to the Science of pseudo-Jabir Ibn Hayyan” Brian Becker, “Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291 as Evidence of Multi-Faceted Textual Movement in the Eastern Mediterranean” Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, “Narratives of the ‘Second Fall’ in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Sources” Mushegh Asatryan, “Shi‘i Underground Literature between Iraq and Syria: ‘The Book of Shadows’ and the History of Early Ghulat” Tamás Visi, “Medieval Hebrew Uroscopic Texts: Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Byzantium to Ashkenaz?” Israel M. Sandman, “The Transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy” Harun Küçük, “Medical Translations and the “Hikmet-i Tabiyye” Problematic in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul” BibliographyIndex

“Texts in Transit is a pathbreaking collection of original studies, mostly in the history of science and medicine, that trace the transmission of written and oral texts around the Eastern Mediterranean basin in the Middle Ages. Each essay considers how the texts were shared, altered, and preserved as they moved between cultural milieus. Theoretically sophisticated, the studies represent cutting-edge research and offer original interpretations of the journeys taken by these texts.”—Charles H. Manekin, editor of Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings