Commentary

Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon

- Diamond, James, Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon, Cambridge, 2014.
In this work, James A. Diamond of the University of Waterloo addresses how Maimonides became part of the Jewish “canon.” From the publisher: Jewish thought since the Middle Ages can be regarded as a sustained dialogue with Moses Maimonides,… More

Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed 1 2

- Burger, Ronna. "Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed 1 2", ed. Pangle, Thomas and Lomax, Harvey in Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life (Recovering Political Philosophy), Palgrave Macmillan, New York,  2013.
on The Guide of the Perplexed

Leo Strauss on Maimonides

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Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.

Torah as Political Philosophy

- Edward Halper, “Torah as Political Philosophy: Maimonides and Spinoza on Divine Law,” in Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence, edited by Jonathan Jacobs, pp. 190-214. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

On the Limitations of Human Knowledge

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Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “On the Limitations of Human Knowledge.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 147-151.

On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides and Spinoza on Good and Evil

- Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “Maimonides and Spinoza on Good and Evil.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 83-104.
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Maimonides and the Imagination by Aryeh Motzkin

- Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “Maimonides and the Imagination.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 37-50.
On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides the Rationalist

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Davidson, Herbert. Maimonides the Rationalist. Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2011

Biography of Moses Maimonides

Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds

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Kraemer, Joel. Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds.  Doubleday, 2008/Random House 2010.

From the publisher: “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… More

Maimonides and His Heritage

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Maimonides and His Heritage. ed. Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn Goodman, and James Allen Grady, S U N Y press, Series in Jewish Philosophy, 2009

The Classic Jewish Philosophers

- Schweid, Eliezer, The Classic Jewish Philosophers: from Saadia through the Renaissance. Trans. L. Levin. Leiden and Boston, Brill Press, 2008.

Converts, Heretics and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider

- James Diamond, Converts, Heretics and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2007
From the publisher: James Diamond’s new book consists of a series of studies addressing Moses Maimonides’ (1138–1204) appropriation of marginal figures—lepers, converts, heretics, and others—normally considered on the fringes of society and… More

On Maimonides

- Manekin, Charles. On Maimonides. Belmont, Calif. & London, 2005.
On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides and the Sciences

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Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “Maimonides and the Sciences.” The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman: 157-175.

On The Guide of the Perplexed

Divine Attributes as Moral Ideals in Maimonides’ Theology

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Samuelson, Norbert. “Divine Attributes as Moral Ideals in Maimonides’ Theology.” The Thought of Maimonides: Philosophical and Legal Studies: ed. Lawrence Kaplan, Julien Bauer,and Ira Robinson: 69-76.

On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment

- James Diamond, Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed , SUNY Press, Albany, N.Y. –Jewish Philosophy Series.  February, 2002
From the publisher: Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment demonstrates the type of hermeneutic that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) engaged in throughout his treatise, The Guide of the Perplexed. By comprehensively… More

The Limitations of Human Knowledge by Shlomo Pines

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Pines, Shlomo. “The Limitations of Human Knowledge According to Al-Farabi, ibn Bajja, and Maimonides.” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature. ed. I. Twersky. vol. 1: 82-109. 79

On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides

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Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides.” Judaism in Practice. ed. L. Fine: 413-28.

On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides’ Secret Position on Creation

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Davidson, Herbert. “Maimonides’ Secret Position on Creation.” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature. ed. Isadore Twersky. vol. 1: 16-40.

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What Did Maimonides Mean by Madda’?

- Septimus, Bernard. “What Did Maimonides Mean by Madda’?” Me’ah She‘arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky. ed. G. Blidstein et al.: 83-110.
On the Mishneh Torah

Moses ibn Maimon’s Responsa

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Benayahu, M. “Moses ibn Maimon’s Responsa.” Studies in Memory of the Rishon Le-Zion R. Yitzhak Nissim. Part 2

Maimonides’ Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic

- Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides’ Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic.” Maimonides and the Sciences. ed. Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine: 111-130.
On The Guide of the Perplexed

Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School

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Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School.” Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. ed. M. D. Meyerson and E. D. English: 40-68.

On The Guide of the Perplexed

On Maimonides’ Messianic Posture

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Kraemer, Joel L. “On Maimonides’ Messianic Posture.” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature. ed. I. Twersky. vol. 2:109-42. (ALSO under Mishneh Torah)

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On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

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Harvey, Warren Ze’ev. “On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture.” Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period. Ed. John Whitman. Brill, 2000: 181-188.

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The Status of Islam in Maimonidean Halakhah

- Bildstein, Gerald. “The Status of Islam in Maimonidean Halakhah.” Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State. ed. Avi Sagi, Menachem Mautner, and Ronen Shamir: 465-476.
On the Mishneh Torah

Maimonides’ First Commandment, Physics, and Doubt

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Harvey, Warren Ze’ev. “Maimonides’ First Commandment, Physics, and Doubt.” Hazon Nahum: Studies in Jewish Law, Thought, and History Presented to Dr. Norman Lamm on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. ed. Yaakov Elman & Jeffrey S. Gurock: 149-162.

On the Mishneh Torah

Moses Maimonides

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Goodman, Lenn. “Moses Maimonides.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London & New York, 1998. vol. 6: 39-49.

Biography of Moses Maimonides

Maimonides in the Sultan’s Palace by Steven Harvey

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Harvey, Steven. “Maimonides in the Sultan’s Palace.” Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer: 47-75. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997.

A biography of Moses Maimonides