Major Works
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.
Commentary
Maimonidean 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
Self-Cognizing Intellect and Negative Attributes in Maimonides’ Theology
-Kasher, Hannah. “Self-Cognizing Intellect and Negative Attributes in Maimonides' Theology.” The Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994): 461-472
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Erotics of Negative Theology: Maimonides on Apprehension
-Gordon, Peter Eli. “The Erotics of Negative Theology: Maimonides on Apprehension.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 2 (1995): 1-38.
on The Guide of the PerplexedSanctity and Silence: The Religious Significance of Maimonides’ Negative Theology
-Seeskin, Kenneth. “Sanctity and Silence: The Religious Significance of Maimonides’ Negative Theology.”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2002): 7-24
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 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