Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works - Couverture souple

Davidson, Herbert A.

 
9780199747573: Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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) .

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9780195173215: Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works

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ISBN 10 :  019517321X ISBN 13 :  9780195173215
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2005
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