Aviezer Ravitzky Aristotle's Meteorology and the Maimonidean Modes of Interpreting the Account of Creation Editor's Prefatory Note. Aviezer Ravitzky 's "Aristotle's Meteorology and the Maimo- nidean Modes of Interpreting the Account of Creation," pub- lished in Hebrew more than a decade ago, quickly became a classic. It shows in an exemplary fashion how a theological- philosophical agenda shaped the interest of some Maimonidean scholars in thirteenth-century Provence in science and how they drew on that science to underpin their radical Maimoni- deanism, especially their naturalistic interpretation of Creation. It therefore appeared apposite to publish it in English trans- lation in Aleph. We are grateful to Prof. Ravitzky for his kind and helpful cooperation. When Ravitzky wrote his paper, two works by Samuel Ibn Tibbon that occupy center stage in this article had not yet been published and Ravitzky read them in manuscript: the Hebrew translation of the Arabic text of Aristotle's Meteorology, and the Commentary on Ecclesiastes. The first appeared in a critical edi- tion by R. Fontaine in 1995; the second will soon appear in a © Aleph 8 (2008) pp. 361-400 361