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.
Other Works
Treatise on Resurrection (1191)
- Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.Letters and Essays: Some important examples
Commentary
Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection: a Comparative Study
-Finkel, J. “Maimonides’ Treatise on Ressurrection: a Comparative Study.” Essays on Maimonides. ed. S. W. Baron: 93-121
Essays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume
-Essays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume, ed. Salo W. Baron. New York, 1941
Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection, a Thirteenth-Century Forgery
-Teicher, Jacob L. “Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection, a Thirteenth-Century Forgery.” Melilah 1 (1944): 81-92.
Maimonides’ Fiction of Resurrection
-Kirschner, R.S. “Maimonides’ Fiction of Resurrection.” Hebrew Union College Annual 52 (1981): 163-93.
Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection
- Lerner, Ralph . “Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection.” History of Religions 23 (1983): 140-55.Moses Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection: An Inquiry into its Authenticity
-Vogelman-Goldfeld, Naomi. Moses Maimonides’ Treatise on Resurrection: An Inquiry into its Authenticity. New York, 1986.
Maimonides 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
Avicenna and Maimonides on Immortality: A Comparative Study
-Schwartz, Dov. “Avicenna and Maimonides on Immortality: A Comparative Study.” Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations. ed. Ronald L. Nettler: 185- 197.
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 MishnahMaimonides 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.