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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
Herbert A. Davidson
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hardcover. Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. There are separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCB; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 948. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Moses Maimonides, rabbinist, philosopher, and physician, had a greater impact on Jewish history than any other medieval figure. Born in Cordova, Spain, in 1137 or 1138, he spent a few years in Morocco, visited Palestine, and settled in Egypt by 1167. He died there in 1204. Maimonides was a man of superlatives. He wrote the first commentary to cover the entire Mishna corpus; composed what quickly became the dominant work on the 613 commandments believed to have been given by God to Moses; produced the most comprehensive and most intensely studied code of rabbinic law to emerge from the Middle ... Read more
Moses Maimonides, rabbinist, philosopher, and physician, had a greater impact on Jewish history than any other medieval figure. Born in Cordova, Spain, in 1137 or 1138, he spent a few years in Morocco, visited Palestine, and settled in Egypt by 1167. He died there in 1204. Maimonides was a man of superlatives. He wrote the first commentary to cover the entire Mishna corpus; composed what quickly became the dominant work on the 613 commandments believed to have been given by God to Moses; produced the most comprehensive and most intensely studied code of rabbinic law to emerge from the Middle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP USA
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195173215
SKU
KSG0032264
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About Herbert A. Davidson
Herbert A. Davidson is Professor of Hebrew, emeritus, at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Proofs for Eternity, Creation, and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (OUP, 1987) and Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect (OUP, 1992).
Reviews for Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
Prof. Herbert A. Davidson is equally at home in the rabbinic tradition and in the history of philosophy - Greek, Arabic, Jewish, and Latin. This intimate acquaintance with Maimonides' two cultures allows him to offer a comprehensive and contextualized account of Maimonides' entire oeuvre... no one will be able to ignore the forceful argments of Davidson's prudent, balanced, and informed ... Read more