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Moses Maimonides - The Man and His Works (Hardcover)
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Moses Maimonides - The Man and His Works (Hardcover)
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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 Ages; and his Guide for the Perplexed has had a greater
influence on Jewish thought than any other Jewish philosophic work.
During the last decades of his life, he conducted an active medical
practice, which extended into the royal court-the Sultan Saladin is
reported to have been his patient-and composed some ten or eleven
works on medicine. This book offers a fresh look at every aspect of
Maimonides' life and works: the course of his life, his education,
his personality, and his rabbinic, philosophical, and medical
writings. At a number of junctures, Davidson points out that
information about Maimonides which has been accepted for decades or
centuries as common knowledge is in actuality supported by no
credible evidence and often, more disconcertingly, is patently
incorrect. Maimonides' diverse writings are frequently viewed as
expressions of several distinct personas, uncomfortably and
awkwardly bundled into a single human frame; the present book
treats his writings as expressions of a single, integrated, albeit
complex, mind.
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