The Guide of the Perplexed: Complete in One Volume

Maimonides, Moses

ISBN 10: 0226842592 / ISBN 13: 9780226842592

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2025

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• Titel: The Guide of the Perplexed: Complete in One Volume
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0226842592
• ISBN-13: 9780226842592
• Einband: paperback
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: New

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The classic translation of this most important medieval Jewish text, presented in one volume for the first time.

The twelfth-century Judeo-Arabic text The Guide of the Perplexed is a monument of rabbinical exegesis and one of the most important works in the history of Jewish thought. Written by Moses ben Maimon,commonly known as Maimonides, the Guide aims to liberate people from the perplexities that arise from an understanding of the Bible based only on its literal meaning.

Shlomo Pines’s translation has served students and scholars for decades, and it is presented here, with Leo Strauss’s influential introduction, in one volume for the first time.

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Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, and physician. He lived in Morocco and Egypt, among other places. Shlomo Pines (1908–1990) was a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1952 until his death. Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at St. John’s College.