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Montse Leyra Curiá, Ph.D.


Division of Humanities
Theology

Education

Ph.D.: Latin and Hebrew Bible in the Middle Ages. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
M.A.: Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
M.A.: Master de profesorado en formación secundaria y bachillerato. Universidad Villanueva. Madrid.
B. A.: Semitic Languages: Hebrew-Aramaic, and Classical Studies: Latin and Greek (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Proficiency in Modern Hebrew: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Practice Areas

  • Associate Professor: Latin, Hebrew, Jewish Literature. Universidad San Dámaso, Madrid.  
  • Associate Professor: Classical and Medieval Latin. Haifa University, Israel.
  • Lecturer: Medieval Latin. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel:  
  • Lecturer: Spanish Language. Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Research Interests

  • Latin Patristics
  • Medieval Theology
  • Jewish and Christian interpretation of the Bible

Publications and Media Placements

Books or chapters of books

The Victorine Exegesis of the Bible in the light of its Northern-French Jewish Sources. Bibliotheca Victorina, 26. Brepols: Turnhout 2017.

"Andrew's in hebreo Interpretations as a Fuller Version of some notes in Hugh's commentary on the Octateuch" in Omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia: Studies on Victorine thought and influence, ed. D. Poirel and M. Janecki. Turnhout: Brepols 2021 (Bibliotheca Victorina, 29), 167-184,

"El resplandor, el fuego y la nube en las apariciones de Dios y los ángeles". Los victorinos y la escuela judía del Norte de Francia en el siglo XII," in Mirar hoy lo estético en la Edad Media. Ed. V. M.Tirado San Juan, M. Janecki, D. Torrijos, W. Bajor. Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge, 105 (Turnhout: Brepols 2025), 149-163.

Peer-review Articles in Journals

"El traslado del cuerpo de Santiago el Mayor", Angel María Leyra Faraldo y Montse Leyra Curiá, in Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia 15 (2022) 4: 25-38.

"Joseph Qara and the 'in hebreo' interpretations in Hugh and Andrew of St. Victor’s commentaries on Genesis, Judges and 1-2 Samuel", in Revue d’ études juives 174 (1-2), janvier-juin 2015, 111-143.

"The References to the Talmud in Andrew of St. Victor's Biblical Commentaries," in Studies on the Latin Talmud. Documents (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona: Barcelona 2017), 145-159.

Translations

Abravanel (1437-1508): translation from Hebrew to Spanish of the preface and introduction to the books of Kings, in Iberia Judaica XII: Asociación Hispana de Estudios Hebraicos (2020), 19-100. Monographic section: La exégesis de Isaac Abravanel. The Biblical Exégesis of Abravanel.

Spanish Translation from the Hebrew of Emanuel Tov's article: Los Manuscritos de Qumrán a la luz de la investigación reciente in Paganos, Judíos y Cristianos en los textos de Qumrán. Trotta, Madrid 1998.

Research projects, Workshops for faculty, lectures and Congresses

"The In Hebreo interpretations of Andrew of Saint Victor in His Commentary on Numbers," in the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Wester Michigan University: May 8-10, 2025.

"Rabbinic sources in Joachim of Fiore" in the 10th International Congress of Joachimite Studies, San Giovanni in Fiore: Sept. 19-21, 2024.

"Comentarios y revisiones de la Biblia en la Europa de los siglos VIII y IX" in the Jornadas Científicas La cultura bíblica en el Reino de Asturias durante los siglos VIII a X, Oviedo, Spain: Lecture, April 11-122024.

"Los victorinos en España: investigación actual y mirada hacia el futuro", in the Congreso Internacional: The Parisian School of Saint-Victor in the Middle Ages: A European-wide Thought, Lublin (Polonia): June 20-22, 2022.

"The References to the Talmud in Andrew of St. Victor's Biblical Commentaries" in the International Medieval Congress, the University of Leeds: July 4-7,2016.

"Rabbí Joseph Qara y las interpretaciones in Hebreo de Hugo y Andrés de San Victor". within the workshop "Hugo de San Victor: sus fuentes judías y cristianas" Universidad San Dámaso, Madrid: 2015.

"R. Shemuel Ben Meir and Hugh and Andrew of St. Victor's 'in hebreo' interpretations in their commentaries on the Pentateuch" in the Xth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Paris: July 20-24, 2014.

Member of Research Project "Ciencia y religión en el judaísmo medieval". Consejo superior de Investigaciones Científicas: PID2020-118688GB-I00; 2021-2026MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Member of Research Project "Recuperación de la estética medieval y diálogo con la estética contemporánea: localización, traducción y estudio de textos de estética medieval." Universidad San Dámaso, Madrid.

Workshop for professors and Ph.D. students: "Hugh and Andrew of St. Victor and the Jewish exegetes of the twelfth-century School in Northern France". Universidad Nicolás Copérnico de Toruń (Poland).

Honors and Awards

  • Research visitor. Institute of Medieval Studies (University of Notre Dame, IN., U.S.A., 2004.
  • Doctoral scholarshipp: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture: New York, U.S.
  • Doctoral scholarship and nomination as a fellow member of The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Zeligman Prize, Tashima Prize, Freedman Scholarship. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.