Major Works
Mishneh 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,… More
Commentary
Maimonides’ Statement on Political Science by Leo Strauss
-Strauss, Leo. “Maimonides’ Statement on Political Science.” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 22 (1953):115-30. What Is Political Philosophy?
On The Guide of the Perplexed, the Mishneh Torah, and other works.Maimonides as Chief Justice
-Goitein, S.D. “Maimonides as Chief Justice.” Jewish Quarterly Review 49 (1959): 191-204.
On the Mishneh TorahThe Beginnings of Mishneh Torah Criticism
-Twersky, Isadore. “The Beginnings of Mishneh Torah Criticism.” Biblical and Other Studies. ed. Alexander Altmann: 161-83.
On the Mishneh TorahSome Non-Halakic Aspects of The Mishneh Torah
- Twersky, Isadore. “Some Non-Halakic Aspects of The Mishneh Torah.” Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ed. Alexander Altmann: 95-118.On the Mishneh TorahA Maimonides Reader
- Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader (New York, 1972).On the Mishneh TorahThe Mishneh Torah of Maimonides
- Twersky, Isadore. “The Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.” Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 5 (1971-79): 265-96.On the Mishneh TorahThe Collected Works of Shlomo Pines
- Pines, Shlomo. The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines. 5 vols. Jerusalem, 1979.Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
- Twersky, Isadore. Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah). New Haven, 1980.On the Mishneh TorahThe Obligation of Talmud on Women According to Maimonides
- Harvey, Warren Ze’ev. “The Obligation of Talmud on Women According to Maimonides.” Tradition 19 (1981): 122-30.On the Mishneh Torah and on the Commentary on the MishnahStudies in Jewish Law and Philosophy
-Twersky, Isadore. Studies in Jewish Law and Philosophy. New York, 1982.
On the Mishneh TorahThe Astronomy of Maimonides and its Sources
-Neugebauer, Otto. “The Astronomy of Maimonides and its Sources.” Hebrew Union College Annual 22 (1949): 321-63. rprt. Neugebauer, Astronomy and History (New York, 1983.): 381-423.
On the Mishneh TorahNotes on Maimonides’ Book of Knowledge
-Strauss, Leo. “Notes on Maimonides’ Book of Knowledge.” In Studies in Mysticism and Religion presented to Gershom G. Scholem on his Seventieth Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1967. Rprt. In Strauss, Leo. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1983: 192-204.
On the Mishneh TorahStudies in Platonic Political Philosophy
-Strauss, Leo. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. Chicago, 1983.
on The Guide of the PerplexedSome Notes to Twersky’s ‘Introduction to the Code of Maimonides’
-Weiss, Raymond L. “Some Notes to Twersky’s ‘Introduction to the Code of Maimonides.’” The Jewish Quarterly Review 74 (1983): 61-79.
On the Mishneh TorahChristian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis: Seventeenth-Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah
-Katchen, Aaron L. Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis: Seventeenth-Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah. Cambridge, Mass., 1984.
On the Mishneh TorahLiving in the Land of Israel According to Maimonides, ‘Laws of Kings V.9-12’
- Bildstein, Gerald. “Living in the Land of Israel According to Maimonides, ‘Laws of Kings V.9-12’.” Me’ah She‘arim: Studies in Medieval Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky: ed. Gerald Blidstein et al.: 171-190On the Mishneh TorahThe Laws of Kings, Wars, and the King Messiah According to Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah
-Vogelman-Goldfeld, Naomi. “The Laws of Kings, Wars, and the King Messiah According to Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.” Sobre la Vida y Obra de Maimonides. ed. Jesus Pelaez del Rosal: 243-250.
On the Mishneh TorahThe Treatment of Islam and Muslims in the legal writings of Maimonides
-Novak, David. “The Treatment of Islam and Muslims in the legal writings of Maimonides.” Studies in Islamic and Judaic Traditions. ed. W. Brinner and S. Ricks: 233-50.
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
Biblical Religion and Political Rationality in Simone Luzzatto, Maimonides and Spinoza
-Septimus, Bernard. “Biblical Religion and Political Rationality in Simone Luzzatto, Maimonides and Spinoza.” Jewish Thought in the Seventeenth Century. ed. Isadore Twersky and Bernard Septimus: 399-434.
On the Mishneh TorahMoses Maimonides and His Time
- Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989Maimonidean 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.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 PerplexedThe 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, 1993Bible 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 TorahTwelfth Century Concepts of Soul and Body: The Maimonidean Controversy in Baghdad
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “Twelfth Century Concepts of Soul and Body: The Maimonidean Controversy in Baghdad.” In Self, Soul, and Body in Religious Experience, edited by J Assmann Alfred Baumgarten, G Stroumsa, 313-334.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides on the “Decline of the Generations” and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
-Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides on the “Decline of the Generations” and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority. Albany, N. Y., 1996.
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Basis of Maimonides’ Concept of Halakhah
-Henshke, David. “The Basis of Maimonides’ Concept of Halakhah.” Hebrew LawAnnual 20 (1997): 103-149
On the Mishneh TorahMedicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides
- Rosner, Fred. Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. Northvale, N. J., 1997.On the Mishneh TorahMaimonides and Eretz Israel: Halakhic, Philosophic, and Historical Perspectives
- Twersky, Isadore. “Maimonides and Eretz Israel: Halakhic, Philosophic, and Historical Perspectives.” Perspectives on Maimonides. ed. Joel L. Kraemer: 257-290.On the Mishneh TorahMaimonides’ First Commandment, Physics, and Doubt
-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 TorahThe 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 TorahReflections on the Place of the Mishneh Torah in the Tradition of the Medieval Encyclopedia
- Kanarfogel, Ephraim. “Reflections on the Place of the Mishneh Torah in the Tradition of the Medieval Encyclopedia.” The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy. ed. S. Harvey: 123-139.On the Mishneh TorahAspects of Maimonides’ Epistemology: Halakhah and Science
- Twersky, Isadore. “Aspects of Maimonides’ Epistemology: Halakhah and Science.” Maimonides and the Sciences. ed. Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine: 227-243.On the Mishneh TorahOn Maimonides’ Messianic Posture
-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)
On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides and the Sciences
-Maimonides and the Sciences. ed. R. S. Cohen and H. Levine. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000
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 TorahProphecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
-Kreisel, Howard. Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Dordrecht, 2001.
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised
- Shapiro, Marc. The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised. Oxford, UK & Portland, Or., 2004.on the Commentary on the MishnahThe Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
-The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005
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, 2007From 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… MoreThe 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… MoreMoses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
- Davidson, Herbert. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works. Oxford, 2010Biography of Moses MaimonidesMaimonides the Rationalist
-Davidson, Herbert. Maimonides the Rationalist. Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2011
Biography of Moses MaimonidesLeo Strauss on Maimonides
-Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.