In Hebreo

• Orders of canons regular
• Old Testament/Hebrew Bible criticism & exegesis
• Early Medieval Christian theology (c. 650-1200)
• Judaism
• Medieval Latin literature

“(…) Montse Leyra-Curia has advanced our understanding of the relationship between these Jewish and Christian works. Leyra-Curia is an accomplished scholar of Latin texts who spent many years in Israel mastering the Hebrew language and studying Jewish Bible commentators. This has enabled her to make meticulous comparisons between the Latin commentaries of the Victorines and the Hebrew commentaries of Rashi and others.” (Marty Lockshin, in The Canadian Jewish News, October 2018, p. 35)

“Die Resultate, die Leyra Curiá in ihrem umfangreichen Werk bietet, liefern eine solide Ausgangsbasis für eine solche Einordnung.” (Cornelia Linde, in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 54/1, 2019, p. 201)

“(…) se trata de una obra de indudable valor para conocer cómo la exégesis judía antigua y medieval fue determinante en la explicación del sentido literal del texto sagrado, en un buen número de pasajes, por parte de los autores representativos de la Escuela de San Víctor: Hugo y Andrés de San Víctor.”(Mariano Gómez Aranda, in Estudios Biblicos, LXXVII / 2, 2019, p. 288)

« Fondée sur une longue tradition historiographique, cette étude, qui, à n’en pas douter, fera date, approfondit et renouvelle de manière considérable la connaissance que les médiévistes pouvaient avoir des sources juives des deux Victorins. La méthode rigoureuse et l’intelligence des questionnements permettent d’affiner notre compréhension non seulement de l’apport de l’exégèse juive à l’exégèse chrétienne mais aussi des relations intellectuelles entre les deux communautés au XII^e siècle. » (A. Noblesse-Rocher, dans Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses, 4, 2018, p. 480)

“Montse Leyra’s study and her conclusions are highly significant for all students of medieval Jewish and Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. Her treatments of so many important passages are sound and constitute a virtual source-book that will be widely used by scholars in the field for a considerable time. No library that holds collections of biblical commentaries from the Middle Ages should be without such a helpful vademecum.” (Stefan C. Reif, in Biblische Notizen 183 (2019), p. 150)

“Scholarship on the subject of the relationship between Victorine and Jewish exegesis has been significantly enhanced by Leyra Curiá’s important study.” (Michael A. Shmidman, in Speculum, 94/4, 2019, p. 1187)

“This study is an important contribution to understanding how the Hebraists gained access to Jewish sources and how they used them, and determination of their levels of knowledge of Hebrew and Rabbinic literature. It contains some conclusions which are consistent with well-known observations among scholars of the medieval Hebraism, as well as some innovative insights, deriving from Montse Leyra’s unique skills and her comprehensive work.” (Ari Geiger, dans Revue Biblique, 127/1, 2020, p. 147)

Montse Leyra Curiá has a BA in Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic) and Classical Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a MA in Hebrew Bible from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), where she wrote her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Professor Sara Japhet and the late Professor Michael Signer (University of Notre Dame, IN), on the Victorines’ references to the Hebrew text in their commentaries on the Pentateuch and Former Prophets in the light of their Northern-French Jewish sources. She has been a visiting researcher at Notre Dame, IN and taught Classical and Medieval Latin at the University of Haifa (Israel) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She now teaches Latin and Hebrew at San Dámaso University in Madrid.