{"product_id":"nahmanides-oded-yisraeli-9781503639706","title":"Nahmanides: An Intellectual Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages. Nahmanides' creative energy spanned his long life, covering diverse fields--Talmudic and halakhic exegesis, biblical commentary, Kabbalah, homiletics, polemics, and poetry--that have all individually been the object of extensive scholarly study. This book brings the many facets of Nahmanides' work together, and breaks new ground by relating the circumstances of his life to the long arc of his intellectual career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYisraeli examines Nahmanides' oeuvre in light of his time and place, reading his writings as a discourse with both movements within the Jewish world of his day and the lively scholasticism of thirteenth-century Western Europe. He takes account of changes over time both in the religious world around Nahmanides, and in his doctrine throughout his career, raising new questions about Nahmanides' work and the influences on his thought. Rooted in deep historical research and attention to social context, this book offers a new historical and biographical perspective that illuminates Nahmanides' religious and intellectual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oded Yisraeli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503639703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503639706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Oded Yisraeli","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47305729212671,"sku":"9781503639706","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3514ee4-8a91-4ca9-894b-0cd23bca3857.jpg?v=1758831635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nahmanides-oded-yisraeli-9781503639706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}