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Major Works

  • Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed

    -

    Ravitzky, Aviezer. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed.” Association of Jewish Studies Review 6 (1981): 87-23.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter

    -

    Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel

  • Moses Maimonides and His Time

    - Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989

  • Maimonidean Studies Journal

    - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-

  • Studies in Maimonides

    - Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.

  • Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2

    -

    Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code

    - Greenberg, Moshe. “Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code.” Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: 421-45.
    On the Mishneh Torah

  • On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

    -

    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.

    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 Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

    -

    The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005

  • The Classic Jewish Philosophers

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

  • Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

    -

    Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence. ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge, Mass. & London. 2008.

  • Maimonides and His Heritage

    -

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

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

    -

    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 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.
    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • 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.

  • Commentary on the Mishnah

    - The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters."   English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.
      Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… More

  • Guide of the Perplexed

    - Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.   Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.
    The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.

  • Epistle to Yemen (1172)

    - Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Treatise on Resurrection (1191)

    - Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Book of Commandments

    - English list of Commandments (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.asp
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • 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.

  • Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

    - Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.  
       

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

    -

    Green, Kenneth Hart. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. Chicago, 2013.

    on The Guide of the Perplexed

Other Works

  • Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed

    -

    Ravitzky, Aviezer. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed.” Association of Jewish Studies Review 6 (1981): 87-23.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter

    -

    Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel

  • Moses Maimonides and His Time

    - Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989

  • Maimonidean Studies Journal

    - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-

  • Studies in Maimonides

    - Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.

  • Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2

    -

    Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code

    - Greenberg, Moshe. “Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code.” Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: 421-45.
    On the Mishneh Torah

  • On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

    -

    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.

    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 Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

    -

    The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005

  • The Classic Jewish Philosophers

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

  • Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

    -

    Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence. ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge, Mass. & London. 2008.

  • Maimonides and His Heritage

    -

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

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

    -

    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 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.
    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • 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.

  • Commentary on the Mishnah

    - The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters."   English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.
      Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… More

  • Guide of the Perplexed

    - Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.   Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.
    The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.

  • Epistle to Yemen (1172)

    - Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Treatise on Resurrection (1191)

    - Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Book of Commandments

    - English list of Commandments (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.asp
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Leo Strauss on Maimonides

    -

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

  • Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

    - Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.  
       

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

    -

    Green, Kenneth Hart. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. Chicago, 2013.

    on The Guide of the Perplexed

Commentary

  • Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed

    -

    Ravitzky, Aviezer. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed.” Association of Jewish Studies Review 6 (1981): 87-23.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter

    -

    Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel

  • Moses Maimonides and His Time

    - Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989

  • Maimonidean Studies Journal

    - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-

  • Studies in Maimonides

    - Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.

  • Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2

    -

    Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code

    - Greenberg, Moshe. “Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code.” Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: 421-45.
    On the Mishneh Torah

  • On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

    -

    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.

    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 Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

    -

    The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005

  • The Classic Jewish Philosophers

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

  • Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

    -

    Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence. ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge, Mass. & London. 2008.

  • Maimonides and His Heritage

    -

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

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

    -

    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 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.
    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • 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.

  • Commentary on the Mishnah

    - The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters."   English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.
      Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… More

  • Guide of the Perplexed

    - Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.   Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.
    The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.

  • Epistle to Yemen (1172)

    - Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Treatise on Resurrection (1191)

    - Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Book of Commandments

    - English list of Commandments (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.asp
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Leo Strauss on Maimonides

    -

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

  • Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

    - Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.  
       

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

    -

    Green, Kenneth Hart. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. Chicago, 2013.

    on The Guide of the Perplexed

Multimedia

  • Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed

    -

    Ravitzky, Aviezer. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed.” Association of Jewish Studies Review 6 (1981): 87-23.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter

    -

    Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel

  • Moses Maimonides and His Time

    - Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989

  • Maimonidean Studies Journal

    - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-

  • Studies in Maimonides

    - Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.

  • Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2

    -

    Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code

    - Greenberg, Moshe. “Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code.” Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: 421-45.
    On the Mishneh Torah

  • On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

    -

    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.

    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 Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

    -

    The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005

  • The Classic Jewish Philosophers

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

  • Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

    -

    Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence. ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge, Mass. & London. 2008.

  • Maimonides and His Heritage

    -

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

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

    -

    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 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.
    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • 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.

  • Commentary on the Mishnah

    - The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters."   English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.
      Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… More

  • Guide of the Perplexed

    - Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.   Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.
    The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.

  • Epistle to Yemen (1172)

    - Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Treatise on Resurrection (1191)

    - Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Book of Commandments

    - English list of Commandments (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.asp
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Leo Strauss on Maimonides

    -

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

  • Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

    - Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.  
       

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

    -

    Green, Kenneth Hart. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. Chicago, 2013.

    on The Guide of the Perplexed

Teaching

  • Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed

    -

    Ravitzky, Aviezer. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of The Guide of the Perplexed.” Association of Jewish Studies Review 6 (1981): 87-23.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter

    -

    Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel

  • Moses Maimonides and His Time

    - Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989

  • Maimonidean Studies Journal

    - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-

  • Studies in Maimonides

    - Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.

  • Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2

    -

    Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.

    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code

    - Greenberg, Moshe. “Bible Interpretation as Exhibited in the First Book of Maimonides’ Code.” Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought: 421-45.
    On the Mishneh Torah

  • On Maimonides’ Allegorical Reading of Scripture

    -

    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.

    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 Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

    -

    The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005

  • The Classic Jewish Philosophers

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

  • Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

    -

    Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence. ed. Jay M. Harris. Cambridge, Mass. & London. 2008.

  • Maimonides and His Heritage

    -

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

  • 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 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.
    On The Guide of the Perplexed

  • 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.

  • Commentary on the Mishnah

    - The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters."   English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.
      Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… More

  • Guide of the Perplexed

    - Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.   Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.
    The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.

  • Epistle to Yemen (1172)

    - Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Treatise on Resurrection (1191)

    - Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • Book of Commandments

    - English list of Commandments (Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University): http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rambam613.asp
    Letters and Essays: Some important examples

  • 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.

  • Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

    - Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.  
       

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

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    Green, Kenneth Hart. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. Chicago, 2013.

    on The Guide of the Perplexed