Maimonides

  • Maimonides: A Biography
    By Abraham Joshua Heschel

    I also want to thank Professor Herbert Davidson, Department of Semitic Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, for his suggestions, and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, ...

  • Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    By Joel L. Kraemer

    ... 252 Wahrani, Ibn Muhriz al-, 447 William of Auvergne, 466 William of Baskerville, 69 Winks, Robin, 8 Women bathing and purification, 284–85, 286–88 birth control laws, 340 Book of Women in the Mishneh Torah, 337–46 Christianity and, ...

  • Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest (Expanded Edition)
    By David Hartman

    This expanded edition contains Hartman’s new postscript. A 12th-century rabbi, scholar, physician, and philosopher, Moses Maimonides is best known for his two great works on Judaism: Mishneh Torah and Guide to the Perplexed.

  • Maimonides: Life and Thought
    By Moshe Halbertal

    This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition.

  • Maimonides: A Biography
    By Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, in one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great medieval philosopher.

  • Maimonides
    By Sherwin B. Nuland

    A criritcal study of the twelfth-century philosopher and physician describes Maimonides's efforts to reconcile his rationationalist thinking and scientific knowledge with a faith in God, his remarkable influence as a Jew in a Muslim world, ...

  • Maimonides: Life and Thought
    By Moshe Halbertal

    This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition.

  • Maimonides: The Exceptional Mind
    By Israel Drazin

    It includes ideas that are not incorporated in the usual books about this great philosopher because they are so different than the traditional thinking of the vast majority of people.

  • Maimonides
    By David Yellin, Israel Abrahams

    Maimonides

  • Maimonides
    By Sherwin B. Nuland

    Part of the Jewish Encounter series Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work—The ...

  • Maimonides: Reason Above All
    By Israel Drazin

    This thought-provoking and enlightening book uncovers unknown but true facts about Maimonides, his family and his unique, often controversial, but brilliant ideas.

  • Maimonides: Life and Thought
    By Moshe Halbertal, Joel A. Linsider

    Halbertal has made it all the way to the top, and his survey of the whole of the Maimonidean landscape is trustworthy and masterful. This is the richest and most intellectually sophisticated book on Maimonides I have ever read.