Dr. Daniel Davies

Since May 2015: Research Associate, University of Hamburg.

September 2012–July 2013: Lecturer, Leo Baeck College.

January 2009–June 2010: Sessional Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University.

October 2008–October 2013: Research Associate, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library.

Responsibilities: Describing and cataloguing manuscripts in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic.

October 2007–September 2008: Spalding Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall College, Cambridge.

September 2006–September 2007: Research Associate, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library.

January 2006–July 2006: Library Assistant, Cambridge University Library.

Responsibilities: Cataloguing Arabic and Hebrew books and dealing with enquiries concerning Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts.

• Medieval Philosophy
• Jewish Thought
• Comparative Theology
• Philosophical Theology

April 2013: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University

Visiting lecturer at the Department of the History of Philosophy.

2012–2013: Leo Baeck College

Lecturing and examining: Worlds of Medieval Judaism.

2009–2010: Theology and Religious Studies: Canterbury Christ Church University

         Lecturing and examining for:

• Sacred Texts and Contexts in the Study of Religions.
• Islam in the Modern World.
• Defining Judaism.
• Reading Sacred Texts.
• Judaism After the Holocaust.

2007–2008: The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, Cambridge

• 2008: Lecturing on Judaism and Jewish Perceptions of the “Other”.
• 2007–2008: Lecturing on Interfaith and Medieval Theology.

2005–2008: Faculty of Divinity: University of Cambridge

2008: Lecturing for The Doctrine of God: God and Creation in Three Traditions.

2007: Classes for World Religions in Comparative Perspective.

2006: Lecturing for World Religions in Comparative Perspective.

Manekin, Charles H., and Daniel Davies, eds. Interpreting Maimonides. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Awarded an Honorable Mention by the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards sponsored by the Association of Jewish Studies.
Reviewed online at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/28516/

“Isaac Abravanel and the Spinozistic Maimonides.” In Interpreting Maimonides, edited by Charles H. Manekin and Daniel Davies. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

“Silence, Skepticism, and Vulgar Theology: On Stern’s Maimonides.” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy (forthcoming).

with Singer, Peter. “Character Traits.” In Galen: Psychological Works, edited by Peter Singer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

My contribution is a translation of an Arabic Galenic treatise and of further quotations from Arabic and Hebrew sources, with annotation and glossary.

For a complete list of publications click here.

• American Academy of Religion
• Association of Jewish Studies
• British Association for Jewish Studies
• European Association for Jewish Studies
• Society for the Study of Theology