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… MoreMishneh Torah
- The Mishneh Torah is published in the Yale Judaica series as a 14 volume set entitled The Code of Maimonides. A good place to start is with the second volume, which has been recently re-translated by Menachem Kellner, a noted scholar of Maimonides. Each Volume is listed individually under the category of the "Mishneh Torah".Mishneh Torah (1177) The Mishneh Torah is a 14-volume comprehensive compendium of Jewish Law, giving authoritative legal guidance on virtually every aspect of the Law, e.g., the foundations of the Law, ethical qualities, marriage and divorce law,… MoreGuide 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.
Commentary
A Maimonides Reader
- Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader (New York, 1972).On the Mishneh TorahA Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean
-Harvey, Warren Ze’ev. “A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1981): 151-72.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides 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
Maimonides
- Lerner, Ralph. “Maimonides.” A History of Political Philosophy. ed. Joseph Cropsy and Leo Strauss. Chicago, 1963: 181-99. 2nd ed. Chicago, 1987: 203-22.Excerpt: “If one is to discuss the objects and character or law, one must proceed from an understanding of the beings for whose sake a law is made. Maimonides proceeds accordingly; in his Guide of the Perplexed, he examines the need for law before… MoreMoses Maimonides and His Time
- Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989Studies in Maimonides
- Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 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 PerplexedPerspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies
-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer Oxford, 1991.
The Thought of Moses Maimonides
-The Thought of Moses Maimonides. ed. Lawrence Kaplan, Ira Robinson, and Julien Bauer, Edwin Mellen Press,1991
Moses Maimonides —Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher
- Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher. ed. Samuel Kottek and Fred Rosner, Northvale, NJ. Jason Aronson Inc, 1993Interpreting 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’ Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal
-Kreisel, Howard. Maimonides’ Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal. Albany, N. Y., 1999.
On The Guide of the PerplexedNaturalism and Universalism in Maimonides’ Political and Religious Thought
- Kraemer, Joel L. “Naturalism and Universalism in Maimonides’ Political and Religious Thought.” Me’ah She‘arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky. ed. G. Blidstein et al.: 47-81.On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Garden of Eden: Spinoza’s Maimonidean Account of the Geneology of Morals and the Origin of Society
-Ravven, Heidi M. “The Garden of Eden: Spinoza’s Maimonidean Account of the Geneology of Morals and the Origin of Society.” Philosophy and Theology 13 (2001): 3-51.
On The Guide of the PerplexedAsceticism in the Thought of R. Bahya Ibn Paquda and Maimonides
-Kreisel, Howard. “Asceticism in the Thought of R. Bahya Ibn Paquda and Maimonides.” Da‘at 21 (2002): 5-22.
On The Guide of the PerplexedDivine Attributes as Moral Ideals in Maimonides’ Theology
-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 PerplexedThe 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: 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… MoreMaimonides the Rationalist
-Davidson, Herbert. Maimonides the Rationalist. Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2011
Biography of Moses MaimonidesMaimonides 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 PerplexedLeo Strauss on Maimonides
-Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.
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