Moses Maimonides

The Man and His Works
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-974757-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial biography, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his many writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Moses Maimonides has been recognized as the standard work on a towering figure of Western intellectual history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Maimonides' Life

- 2. Education

- 3. Rabbinic Works I

- 4. Rabbinic Works II

- 5. Rabbinic Works III

- 6. Philosophical Works I

- 7. Philosophical Works II

- 8. Medical Works

- 9. Miscellaneous Writings

- 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Professor of Hebrew, emeritus, at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Proofs for Eternity, Creation, and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (OUP, 1987) and Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect (OUP, 1992).