KALMAN P. BLAND (Ph.D., Brandeis
University) is Professor of Religion. 
He regularly teaches two undergraduate 
courses in medieval and Renaissance Jewish 
intellectual and cultural history: Jewish
Mysticism (Kahhbalah) and Jewish Religious 
Thought (e.g. Saadia, Judah Ha-Levi,
Maimonides, and the Averroists). At the 
graduate level, he teaches a reading course 
on the history of Jewish biblical interpetation,
especially rabbinic midrash. Among his 
publications are a critical edition and English 
translation of Moses Narboni's Commentary to
the Treatise on Conjunction with the Active 
Intellect by Ibn Rushd, and a study of Elia 
Del Medigo's Averroist response to Pico Della
 Mirandola's Kabbalah. His current research 
interests revolve around medieval Jewish 
aesthetics, ranging from the epistemological 
topics of bodily sensation and imagination to
 the philosophical attitudes toward the arts 
of music, architecture, painting and sculpture.