Maimonidean Studies

Maimonidean Studies
Author:
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2008
Genre: Jewish philosophy
ISBN: 9780881259414

Maimonidean Studies

Maimonidean Studies
Author: Arthur Hyman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1990
Genre: Jewish philosophy
ISBN:

Interpreting Maimonides

Interpreting Maimonides
Author: Marvin Fox
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 1990
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0226259420

In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions—ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.

Perspectives on Maimonides

Perspectives on Maimonides
Author: Joel L. Kraemer
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1909821438

'It will allow students to possess a volume that will acquaint them with high standards of scholarship, showing at the same time that although so much has been said and written about Maimonides, it is still possible to come up with new and interesting insights into his life and works, which continue to be interpreted very differently by different scholars.' - Gad Freudenthal, Journal of Religious History

Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters

Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

More than 800 years after his death, the figure of Moses Maimonides--rabbi, philosopher, doctor, and communal leader--continues to fascinate. Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters unites the traditional rabbinic approach and the modern academic perspective to forge a new understanding of this iconic teacher. This groundbreaking work by Marc B. Shapiro, which includes an essay on Maimonides' approach to superstition in rabbinic literature and features three previously unpublished letters by Rabbi Joseph Kafih, will be essential reading for scholars and students of Jewish studies.

Judaism as Philosophy

Judaism as Philosophy
Author: Howard Theodore Kreisel
Publisher: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781618111791

The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides? philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the workings of the world order, or left room for the volitional activity of God in history. These topics include divine law, creation, the Account of the Chariot, prophet and sage, Mosaic prophecy, reasons for the commandments, and prayer. Special attention is paid to three lesser known but highly significant Provenȧl Jewish thinkers: Moses Ibn Tibbon, Levi ben Avraham, and Nissim ben Moses of Marseille.

Ethics of Maimonides

Ethics of Maimonides
Author: Hermann Cohen
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003-01-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0299177637

Hermann Cohen’s essay on Maimonides’ ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cohen rejects the notion that we should try to understand texts of the past solely in the context of their own historical era. Subverting the historical order, he interprets the ethical meanings of texts in the light of a future yet to be realized. He commits the entire Jewish tradition to a universal socialism prophetically inspired by ideals of humanity, peace, and universal justice. Through her own probing commentary on Cohen’s text, like the margin notes of a medieval treatise, Bruckstein performs the hermeneutical act that lies at the core of Cohen’s argument: she reads Jewish sources from a perspective that recognizes the interpretive act of commentary itself.

Science in the Bet Midrash

Science in the Bet Midrash
Author: Menachem Marc Kellner
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), the single most influential Jew of the last thousand years. While covering many aspects of his religious philosophy, the central focus of these essays is the way Maimonides elucidated and expressed the universalistic thrust of the Jewish tradition.