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… 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
Maimonides on Human Perfection
-Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides on Human Perfection. Atlanta, Ga., 1990.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonidean Studies Journal
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-The Thought of Moses Maimonides
-The Thought of Moses Maimonides. ed. Lawrence Kaplan, Ira Robinson, and Julien Bauer, Edwin Mellen Press,1991
Politics and Perfection: Gersonides vs. Maimonides
-Kellner, Menachem. “Politics and Perfection: Gersonides vs. Maimonides.” Jewish Political Studies Review (1994): 49-82.
On The Guide of the PerplexedTrue Felicity: Paradise in the Thought of Avicenna and Maimonides
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “True Felicity: Paradise in the Thought of Avicenna and Maimonides.” Medieval Encounters 4 (1998): 51-77.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ View of Happiness: Philosophy, Myth, and the Transcendence of History
-Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. “Maimonides’ View of Happiness: Philosophy, Myth, and the Transcendence of History.” Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. ed. John Efron et al.: 189- 213.
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 PerplexedOn Maimonides
- Manekin, Charles. On Maimonides. Belmont, Calif. & London, 2005.On The Guide of the PerplexedWorship, Corporeality and Human Perfection: a Reading of The Guide of the Perplexed III.5 1–54
- Shatz, David. “Worship, Corporeality and Human Perfection: a Reading of The Guide of the Perplexed III.5 1–54.” The Thought of Moses Maimonides: Philosophical and Legal Studies (Studies in the History of Philosophy, vol. 17). ed. Lawrence Kaplan, Julien Bauer, and Ira Robinson: 77-129.on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
-Stroumsa, Sarah. Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Biography on Moses MaimonidesLeo Strauss on Maimonides
-Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.