Yoav Meyrav

Dr. Yoav Meyrav is a tenured Researcher at the University of Hamburg's Institute for Jewish Studies, leading the ERC-funded HEPMASITE project (2022–2027). He holds academic affiliations within the Faculty of Humanities, specializing in medieval Hebrew and Arabic philosophy, Hebrew philology, and manuscript studies. His work emphasizes reconstructing philosophical knowledge through material analysis of manuscripts, particularly focusing on Averroes's Aristotelian epitomes and marginalized philosophical agents in medieval Jewish thought.

Education includes a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University (2017) on Themistius’s Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12, an M.A. (2006), and B.A. (2001). His research bridges textual criticism, translation studies, and the philosophy of religion, with a focus on the interplay between manuscripts and intellectual history.

Key projects include the HEPMASITE initiative, exploring Hebrew philosophical manuscripts as sites of engagement, and prior work at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies on Jewish skepticism. Meyrav’s scholarship addresses material causality in manuscripts and redefines the historiography of medieval philosophy by centering understudied actors and material artifacts.