(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...
Moses ben Maimon, also known as Rambam, and commonly called Maimonides, was the ultimate Jewish polymath. He was the court physician to the sultan Saladin, and author of the Mishnah Torah and The ...
A complete Spanish-language edition of Moses Maimonides’ "Guide for the Perplexed" has been published here in a three-volume edition. The translation, which was completed over a three-year period by ...
Book Description: Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed - often considered the masterpiece of medieval Jewish philosophy - was originally composed in Arabic between 1185 and 1190-1191. It was ...
Over the past three months, we have examined three distinct classical pieces of Jewish literature: the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Siddur, or Prayerbook. Now we turn to some of the great writers ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical ...