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Today's episode, Man and Superman,

Gersonities and the Jewish reaction to Averuis.

If you want to bring the ideas of a long dead philosopher to a wider audience, you have three basic choices, not counting podcasts.

You can translate the philosopher's writings into a new language.

You can produce writings of your own that present the philosopher's ideas, perhaps applying them

to new problems to show the philosopher's perennial relevance, or you can write commentaries.

These methods were practiced already in the ancient world.

Let's hear it for Boethius in particular, who did all three of these things for Aristotle.

And they are still practice today.

We've also seen translations, independent treatises, and commentaries among philosophical authors writing in Arabic.

Now that we've arrived at philosophy in Hebrew, there's a fourth

approach to consider. Not podcasts or interpretive dance, though that would be pretty awesome, but

rather the super commentary.

A super commentary is not a commentary that comes from the planet

Krypton or has been bitten by a radioactive spider.

It's something more mundane, a commentary about another commentary.

As we know, the commentaries of Averuise had a great impact on Christian philosophers when they

were translated into Latin, and on Jewish philosophers when they were translated into Latin and on Jewish philosophers when translated into Hebrew.

Among the Christians, Averuiz was simply the commentator.

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