Major Works
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
Commentary
Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim and al-Farabi’s Fuṣūl al-Madanī
-Davidson, Herbert A. “Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim and al-Farabi’s Fuṣūl al-Madanī.” Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research 31 (1963): 33-50. rprt. Essays in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy. ed. Arthur Hyman: 116-33.
on the Commentary on MishnahA Maimonides Reader
- Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader (New York, 1972).On the Mishneh TorahMaimonides 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
Maimonidean Studies Journal
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-Maimonides’ Ethics: The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality
- Weiss, Raymond L. Maimonides’ Ethics: The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality. Chicago, 1991.On the Mishneh Torah, the Commentary on the Mishnah, and the Guide of the PerplexedInterpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy
-Fox, Marvin . Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy. Chicago, 1994.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides: 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