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.
Other Works
Epistle to Yemen (1172)
- Recommended Translation: Trans. Joel Kraemer in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 99-13Letters and Essays: Some important examplesTreatise on Resurrection (1191)
- Trans. Hillel Fradkin in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 154-177.Letters and Essays: Some important examplesLetter on Astrology (1194)
- Trans. Ralph Lerner in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 178-187.Letters and Essays: Some important examples
Commentary
The Amphibolous Terms in Aristotle, Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides
-Wolfson, Harry Austryn. “The Amphibolous Terms in Aristotle, Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides.” Harvard Theological Review 31 (1938): 151-73. rprt. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. ed. I. Twersky and G. H. Williams. vol. 1: 455-77.
on The Guide of the PerplexedEssays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume
-Essays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume, ed. Salo W. Baron. New York, 1941
Moses Maimonides, Physician and Scientist
-Macht, David S. “Moses Maimonides, Physician and Scientist.” Jews in the Arts and Sciences: Jubilee Volume of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences. ed. Mordecai Soltes. New York, 1954: 107-19.
Biography on Moses MaimonidesStudies in the History of Philosophy and Religion
-Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. 2 vols. ed. I. Twersky and G. H. Williams. Cambridge, Mass., 1973.
on The Guide of the PerplexedThe 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 TorahStudies in Platonic Political Philosophy
-Strauss, Leo. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. Chicago, 1983.
on The Guide of the PerplexedThe Mathematical Writings of Maimonides
-Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “The Mathematical Writings of Maimonides.” Jewish Quarterly Review 75 (1984): 57-65.
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
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… MoreMaimonides on Aristotle and Scientific Method
-Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides on Aristotle and Scientific Method.” Moses Maimonides and his Time. ed. E. L. Ormsby: 53-88.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMoses 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-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies
-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer Oxford, 1991.
Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought
-Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought. ed. Lenn Goodman. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992
Al-Farabi and Maimonides on Medicine as a Science
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “Al-Farabi and Maimonides on Medicine as a Science.”Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 3 (1993): 235-49.
Moses Maimonides —Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher
- Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher. ed. Samuel Kottek and Fred Rosner, Northvale, NJ. Jason Aronson Inc, 1993Maimonides 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 PerplexedMaimonides on the Philosophic Sciences in his Treatise on the Art of Logic
-Kraemer, Joel. “Maimonides on the Philosophic Sciences in his Treatise on the Art of Logic.” Perspectives on Maimonides. ed. Joel L. Kraemer: 77-104.
The True Perplexity: The Guide of the Perplexed, Part II, chapter 24
-Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “The True Perplexity: The Guide of the Perplexed, Part II, chapter 24.” Perspectives on Maimonides. ed. Joel L. Kraemer: 159-74.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ 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 TorahMaimonides and Astronomy: Some Further Reflections
-Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “Maimonides and Astronomy: Some Further Reflections.” The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages, IV, 1-26.
On The Guide of the PerplexedAspects 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 TorahMaimonides 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 TorahNaturalism 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 Limitations of Human Knowledge by Shlomo Pines
-Pines, Shlomo. “The Limitations of Human Knowledge According to Al-Farabi, ibn Bajja, and Maimonides.” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature. ed. I. Twersky. vol. 1: 82-109. 79
On The Guide of the PerplexedRavings’: Maimonides’ Concept of Pseudo-Science
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “‘Ravings’: Maimonides’ Concept of Pseudo-Science.” Aleph 1 (2001): 141-63.
Esoteric Knowledge and the Vulgar: Parallels Between Newton and Maimonides
- Faur, J. “Esoteric Knowledge and the Vulgar: Parallels Between Newton and Maimonides.” Trumah 12 (2002): 183-191.on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides and the Sciences
-Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “Maimonides and the Sciences.” The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman: 157-175.
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman. Cambridge, 2003.The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
-The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005
Maimonides’ critical epistemology and Guide 2:24
-Harvey, Warren Ze’ev “Maimonides' critical epistemology and Guide 2:24” Aleph (2008): 213-235.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides 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… MoreMaimonides 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 MaimonidesMaimonides the Rationalist
-Davidson, Herbert. Maimonides the Rationalist. Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2011
Biography of Moses MaimonidesOn the Limitations of Human Knowledge
-Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “On the Limitations of Human Knowledge.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 147-151.
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.