Maimonides.(Book review) From: Shofar | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Shapiro, Marc B. | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Maimonides, by Sherwin B. Nuland. New York: Schocken, 2005. 233 pp. $19.95.

The last few years have seen the publication of numerous studies focusing on Maimonides and his oeuvre. The impetus, of course, was the eight-hundredth anniversary of Maimonides' death. Together with the much new and excellent scholarship produced during this time, comes a delightful, popular biography of Maimonides by Sherwin Nuland, an outstanding medical doctor well known for his best-selling ...

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