With Maimonides' On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (formerly known as On the Causes of Symptoms), Gerrit Bos offers a new critical edition and translation of the original Arabic text and the medieval Hebrew translations.

Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has widely published in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts.