Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson writes on Jewish intellectual history with a focus on philosophy and mysticism in premodern Judaism, feminism and Jewish philosophy, Judaism and ecology, Jewish bioethics, and Judaism and science. Dr. Tirosh-Samuleson is the organizer of the Templeton Research Lectures for Constructive Relations of Religion and Science (500,000) 2006-09 for the project: “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology.” She is currently editing Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: the Legacy of Hans Jonas (Brill Academic Publishers) and working on Judaism and Nature (Rowman & Littlefield)
Her publications include:
Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (Albany SUNY Press, 1991)
Editor, Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Cambridge, mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 20030
Editor, Women and Gender in Jewish philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)
“Continuity and Revision in the Study of Kabbalah,” AJS Review 18 (1991): 161-192.
“Jewish Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity,” in History of Jewish Philosophy, ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman (London and new York: Routledge, 1997), 499-573.
“Theology of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Italian Jewish Philosophy,” Science in Context 10 (no. 4) (1997): 529-70.
“Philosophy and Kabbalah: 1200-1600,” Cambridge Companion of Medieval Jewish Philosophy, ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 218-57.
“The Bible in the Jewish Philosophical Tradition,” The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Marc Brettler and Adele Berlin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 1948-75.
“Rethinking the Past and Anticipating the Future of Science and Religion,” Zygon; Journal of Religion and Science 40 (1) (2005): 33-42.
“Religion, Ecology, and gender: A Jewish Perspective,” Feminist Theology 13 (3) (2005): 373-397.
“Judaism,” The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology,” ed. Roger S. Gottlieb (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 26-74
