The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 1: v. 1 - Softcover

Maimonides, Moses

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226502309 ISBN 13: 9780226502304

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1974

Synopsis

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

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From the Back Cover:

This monument of rabbinical exegesis, written at the end of twelfth century, has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. It has also been a formative element in the thinking of leading Christian writers and philosophers down through the seventeenth century. The Guide is not a philosophical treatise. Rather, its aim is to liberate men from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This celebrated translation is now available in a two-volume Phoenix paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0226502309
• ISBN 13: 9780226502304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384