[2] He was Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School until 2008, succeeded by David Berger.
Hyman's books and articles on medieval Jewish philosophy have been published worldwide; most noteworthy are his collections of essays on medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophy, and his critical edition of Averroes.
Hyman served as president of both the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
Hyman was married to Ruth Link-Salinger and had three sons, Jeremy, Michael, and Joseph.
Hyman's articles include “Maimonide, partisan du libre arbitre ou déterministe?” in Actes du Colloque Maïmonide, “Averroes’ Theory of the Intellect and the Ancient Commentators,” in Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition, “Spinoza on Possibility and Contingency,” in Meetings of the Minds: The Relations between Medieval and Classical Modern European Philosophy, and “Medieval Jewish Philosophy as Philosophy, as Exegesis, and as Polemic,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia.