Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works by Davidson, Herbert

Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195173215)

Vendor: Herbert Davidson
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Format: Hardcover
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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works by Davidson, Herbert

Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works

$125.00
Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works by Davidson, Herbert

Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works

$125.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

Author: Herbert Davidson
ISBN-10: 019517321X
ISBN-13: 9780195173215
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2004
Pages: 584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.48w x 1.51d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1835
By Herbert Davidson
By Herbert Davidson
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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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