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.

This new critical edition of Maimonides' Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms by Gerrit Bos is the first with an English translation based on the Arabic text. It also contains three medieval Hebrew translations.