Maimonides And His Heritage

Download Maimonides And His Heritage full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Maimonides And His Heritage ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Maimonides and His Heritage

Author : Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477258
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides and His Heritage by : Idit Dobbs-Weinstein

Download or read book Maimonides and His Heritage written by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138–1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over eight hundred years, beginning with Maimonides' historical context; ranging through his distinct contributions to philosophy, theology, medicine, and Jewish law; to the impact his ideas have had on later generations. His humane perspective and commitment to intellectual rigor are reflected in the wide range of his works and his active role as a spiritual guide and intellectual leader. Maimonides' intellectual openness makes his work an enduring model of creative synthesis and critical appropriation, as well as a continuing source of intellectual stimulation not only for the many specialist scholars who scrutinize his texts but also for a wide and lively audience of nonspecialists.

Maimonides

Author : David Hartman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827609116
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : David Hartman

Download or read book Maimonides written by David Hartman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1976 Maimonides: Torah and Philosophical Quest, David Hartman departs from traditional scholarly views about Maimonides by offering a new way of understanding the great man and his work. 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. They have often been viewed by scholars as having different audiences and different messages, together reflecting the two sides of the author himself: Maimonides the halakhist, who focused on piety through obedience to Jewish law; and Maimonides the philosopher, who advocated closeness with God through reflection and knowledge of nature. Hartman argues that while many scholars look at one aspect of Maimonides to the exclusion or dismissal of the other, the way to really understand him is to see both adherence to the law and philosophical pursuits as two essential aspects of Judaism. Hartman’s 2009 postscript sheds new light on his argument and indeed on Judaism as Maimonides interpreted it. In it Hartman explains that while Maimonides never envisioned the integration of halakhah with philosophy, he did view them as existing in a symbiotic relationship. While the focus of the Mishneh Torah was halakha and obedience to Jewish law, Guide to the Perplexed spoke to individuals whose love of God grew through their passion, devotion and yearning to understand God’s wisdom and power in nature. Both modes of spiritual orientation lived in the thought of Maimonides.

Rambam

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rambam by : Moses Maimonides

Download or read book Rambam written by Moses Maimonides and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1977 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides, known by the acronym "Rambam," was unquestionably the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism. Born in Cordova, Spain, forced at an early age to conceal his faith, he emigrated to Morocco and then Palestine before settling in Egypt, where financial necessity compelled him to study medicine and where he eventually became personal physician to Saladin. Although his medical skills were renowned and his writings in this field were widely studied throughout the Western world in the following centuries, Maimonides' primary interest was theology. He devoted ten years to preparing Mishnah Torah and fifteen years to The Guide to the Perplexed - the first written in Hebrew, the second in Arabic. These studies of Jewish law were first considered radical in their efforts to reconcile religious and scientific thought, but later became pillars of traditional Jewish faith. Dr. Lenn Goodman has prepared new translations from these works, arranging the extensive excerpts by topic to focus on Maimonides' principal contributions to philosophy. These are accompanied by commentary and analysis, clarifying the complexities of his thought and providing the historical and religious background required by the modern lay reader. The introduction details Rambam's life and evaluates his role in history and theology. The study of Maimonides is essential to the understanding of Judaism and Western culture. Rambam makes his writings accessible to those who cannot work from the original texts, and meaningful to those who have not had extensive previous exposure to medieval theology. — Publisher description.

Maimonides

Author : Joel L. Kraemer
Publisher : Doubleday Religion
ISBN 13 : 0385512007
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : Joel L. Kraemer

Download or read book Maimonides written by Joel L. Kraemer and published by Doubleday Religion. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time. Maimonides was born in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and died in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early years in Spain and North Africa to his later years in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and society. His life, career, and writings are the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam. Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgivers of humankind. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and he wrote medical works in Arabic that were translated into Hebrew and Latin and studied for centuries in Europe. As a philosopher and scientist, he contributed to mathematics and astronomy, logic and ethics, politics and theology. His Guide of the Perplexed, a masterful interweaving of religious tradition and scientific and philosophic thought, influenced generations of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers. Now, in a dazzling work of scholarship, Joel Kraemer tells the complete story of Maimonides’ rich life. MAIMONIDES is at once a portrait of a great historical figure and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the twelfth century. Joel Kraemer draws on a wealth of original sources to re-create a remarkable period in history when Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions clashed and mingled in a setting alive with intense intellectual exchange and religious conflict.

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

Author : Alfred L. Ivry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639526X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed by : Alfred L. Ivry

Download or read book Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed written by Alfred L. Ivry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary—even contradictory—statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the acclaim the Guide has received, comprehension of it has been unattainable to all but a few in every generation. Drawing on a lifetime of study, Alfred L. Ivry has written the definitive guide to the Guide—one that makes it comprehensible and exciting to even those relatively unacquainted with Maimonides’ thought, while also offering an original and provocative interpretation that will command the interest of scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chapter exposition of the widely accepted Shlomo Pines translation of the text along with a clear paraphrase that clarifies the key terms and concepts. Corresponding analyses take readers more deeply into the text, exploring the philosophical issues it raises, many dealing with metaphysics in both its ontological and epistemic aspects.

Maimonides' Cure of Souls

Author : David Bakan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438427441
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides' Cure of Souls by : David Bakan

Download or read book Maimonides' Cure of Souls written by David Bakan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Maimonides

Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : Amos Funkenstein

Download or read book Maimonides written by Amos Funkenstein and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Maimonides' messianic beliefs as stemming from his views of the structure of nature and the course of history. The author argues that Maimonides saw the messianic era as an historical period on one hand, and as a Utopian era of eternal peace and the recognition of God on the other.

Maimonides and the Heritage of Astronomy in Israel

Author : Suessmann Muntner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (729 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides and the Heritage of Astronomy in Israel by : Suessmann Muntner

Download or read book Maimonides and the Heritage of Astronomy in Israel written by Suessmann Muntner and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maimonides

Author : David Yellin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : David Yellin

Download or read book Maimonides written by David Yellin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Author : Mordechai Z. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004210067
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Opening the Gates of Interpretation by : Mordechai Z. Cohen

Download or read book Opening the Gates of Interpretation written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical hermeneutics of the illustrious philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) has long been underappreciated, and viewed in isolation from the celebrated philological schools of “plain sense” (peshat) Jewish Bible exegesis. Aiming to redress this imbalance, this study identifies Maimonides’ substantial contributions to that interpretive movement, assessing its achievements in cultural context. Like others in the rationalist Geonic-Andalusian school, Maimonides’ understanding of Scripture was informed by Arabic learning. Drawing upon Greco-Arabic logic, poetics, politics, physics and metaphysics, as well as Muslim jurisprudence, he devised sophisticated new approaches to key issues that occupied other exegetes, including a variety of interpretive cruxes, the reconciliation of Scripture with reason, a legal hermeneutics for deriving halakhah (Jewish law) from Scripture, and the nature of interpretation itself. "It is a valuable contribution to the entire study of medieval biblical exegesis and will undoubtedly serve as the basis of all subsequent discussions of Maimonides' hermeneutics." Daniel J. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Maimonides and the Sciences

Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401721289
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides and the Sciences by : Robert S. Cohen

Download or read book Maimonides and the Sciences written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times. Deeply learned in mathematics, astronomy, astrology (which he strongly rejected), logic, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and jurisprudence, and himself a practising physician, Maimonides flourished within the high Arabic culture of the 12th century, where he had momentous influence upon subsequent Jewish beliefs and behavior, upon ethical demands, and upon ritual traditions. For him, mastery of the sciences was indispensable in the process of religious fulfilment.

Maimonides

Author : Solomon Zeitlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258088125
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : Solomon Zeitlin

Download or read book Maimonides written by Solomon Zeitlin and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moses Maimonides

Author : Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019517321X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Moses Maimonides by : Herbert A. Davidson

Download or read book Moses Maimonides written by Herbert A. Davidson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Maimonides

Author : Israel Drazin
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652294241
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides by : Israel Drazin

Download or read book Maimonides written by Israel Drazin and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the remarkable penetrating mind of Moses Maimonides and to his rational eye-opening thoughts on many subjects. 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. It contrasts the notions of other Jewish thinkers, somewhat rational and others not rational at all. The reader will be surprised, if not shocked, to learn that a host of beliefs that are prevalent among the Jewish masses have no rational basis. This does not suggest that Judaism itself is irrational and absurd. Just the opposite. But many Jews have opted to believe the unreasonable and illogical conventional ideas what Maimonides would label non-Jewish sabian notions because they have not been acquainted with Maimonides correct rational alternatives and taken the time to reflect upon it.

Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation

Author : Josef Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662787X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation by : Josef Stern

Download or read book Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation written by Josef Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation—in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, English, and other modern languages—rather than in its original Judeo-Arabic. This volume is the first to tell the story of the translations and translators of Maimonides’ Guide and its impact in translation on philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day. A collection of essays by scholars from a range of disciplines, the book unfolds in two parts. The first traces the history of the translations of the Guide, from medieval to modern renditions. The second surveys its influence in translation on Latin scholastic, early modern, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, as well as its impact in translation on current scholarship. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be essential reading for philosophers, historians, and religious studies scholars alike.

Maimonides and Philosophy

Author : S. Pines
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400944861
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Maimonides and Philosophy by : S. Pines

Download or read book Maimonides and Philosophy written by S. Pines and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim onides as philosopher. We did not enter into the other aspects of his work, rabbinical, legal, medical, etc., except in so far as the relation between his philosophy and his work in halakha (Jewish law) is itself a philosophical question. That no one is quite certain about Maimonides' date of birth is symbolic of the state of his philosophy as well. Maimonides' thought poses various enigmas, lends itself to contradictory interpretations and gives rise today, as it did in the Middle Ages, to sustained controversies. Some of the contribu tions to the present volume deal with these and cognate topics. Others deal with certain aspects of the philosophical tradition in which Maimonides was rooted, with some traits peculiar to the Islamic society in the midst of which he lived, and with his influence on Christian scholasticism. Maimonides' thought had many facets, and for this and other reasons the question as to his place and stature in the history of philosophy admits of no simple answer. In this volume an attempt has been made to draw atten tion to some of these complexities.

The Pursuit of the Ideal

Author : Menachem Kellner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408684
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Pursuit of the Ideal by : Menachem Kellner

Download or read book The Pursuit of the Ideal written by Menachem Kellner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Schwarzschild—rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher—is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking that began with Sa'adia Gaon and reached its highest expression in Maimonides. These thinkers believed that Judaism must confront some systematic view of the universe. Sa'adia did this with Kalam, ibn Gabirol with Neo-Platonism, and Maimonides with Aristotelianism. Schwarzschild does it with Neo-Kantianism. From this confrontation, Schwarzschild derives important insights into the nature and structure of contemporary Judaism and Jewish existence in the post-modern world. Menachem Kellner brings together thirteen of Schwarzschild's Jewish (as opposed to straightforwardly philosophical) writings. Included are important discussions of messianism, death of God theology, ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The common concerns underlying these essays are Neo-Kantian idealism and messianism. In an afterword written especially for this book, Schwarzschild shows that these two foci are really one. In an introductory essay, Menachem Kellner explores the philosophic underpinning of Schwarzschild's non-Marxist socialism, pacifism, and messianism; and of his critiques of Christianity, political conservatism, and Zionism.