Maimonides: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 1466800321
- ISBN-13
- 9781466800328
- Series
- Maimonides
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-04-01
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Description
Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, is one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great medieval philosopher.
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