Author: Moses MaimonidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
הקדמת הרמב״ם לפירושו למשניות
Author: Moses MaimonidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud
Author: MaimonidesMaimonides
Author: Moshe HalbertalPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400848474
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopher Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. 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. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books—Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.
Introduction to the Talmud
Author: Maimonides' Introduction to His Commentary on the Mishnah
Author: Moses MaimonidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), physician, scientist, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian, emerged as a halakhist through his classic work, Commentary on the Mishnah, in which he sets out to explain to the layman the meaning and the purpose of the Mishnah, while bypassing the often complicated and concentrated discussions of the Gemara. It was Maimonides' wish to popularize the Mishnah and to make it easily accessible to the general reader. He did so by extracting the underlying principles involved in lengthy, often abstract, talmudic discussions and stating the halakhic decisions derived therein, interspersing them with ethical insights and philosophical teachings.
Maimonidean Studies
Author: Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881259414
Category : Jewish philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Moses Maimonides
Author: Herbert A. DavidsonPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 019517321X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history.
Introduction to the Talmud
Author: Moses Mielzinerמשנה תורה
Author: Moses MaimonidesPublisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881250343
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Wisdom of Maimonides
Author: Edward HoffmanPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590305175
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Here is an accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the famous twelfth-century philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish ethics and law profoundly influenced Judaism. The Wisdom of Maimonides includes a biography; a section of selected teachings drawn from Maimonides' major works The Guide for the Perplexed and the Mishneh Torah, as well as his other writings; and tales about Maimonides' colorful life as a court physician and rabbinic leader.