Dr. Daniel Davies

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Key aspects of activity
- Medieval Philosophy
- Comparative Theology
- Jewish Thought
- Metaphysics
Curriculum Vitae
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.
Key aspects of activity
- Medieval Philosophy
- Jewish Thought
- Comparative Theology
- Philosophical Theology
Teaching
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.
Publications
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.
Memberships
- American Academy of Religion
- Association of Jewish Studies
- British Association for Jewish Studies
- European Association for Jewish Studies
- Society for the Study of Theology