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The Mind of Maimonides.(Moses ben Maimon)
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Moses ben Maimon made significant contributions to both Judaic and Christian thought. His admonition to pursue the truth was intertwined with his search for the divine, and he used this premise to establish comparisons of Judaism and Christianity. Maimon believed that the two religions worshiped the same God, and did not consider Christianity to be a form of idolatry.
The following is the second in a series that examines through the prism of a key figure each century of the millenn...
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The Mind of Maimonides.(Moses ben Maimon)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; The following is the second in a series that examines through the prism of a key figure each century of the millennium now coming to a close. David Novak considers the twelfth century and Moses Maimonides. Next month: Romanus Cessario on the thirteenth century and Thomas Aquinas. --The Editors
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Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides
Interpretation
; Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides by Kenneth Seeskin Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 250 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-512846.X. MAIMONIDES UNITES GENUINE WORSHIP, moral conduct, and philosophical reflection into an organic and logical whole. Drawing on the Guide of the
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Heschel's two Maimonides.(Abraham Joshua Heschel)(Essay)
The Jewish Quarterly Review
; THE AIM OF THIS ESSAY is to describe and analyze the ways in which Maimonides appears in the work of Abraham Joshua Heschel. I hope to shed light on Heschel's understanding of his own enterprise, and to provide a view of Heschel's Maimonides in the context of other modern Jewish readings of the
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Maimonides, Then and Now
Judaism
; THE CONFERENCES THAT HAVE MARKED THE 800TH anniversary of the death of Maimonides have examined and assessed the many aspects of his thought and achievement. Scholarly books follow in their wake, including Herbert Davidson's encompassing Moses Maimonides, the Man and his Works. This is thus an
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Body and soul.(Maimonides)(Book review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; MAIMONIDES by SHERWIN B. NULAND Schocken, 234 pages, $19.95 THE EIGHT-HUNDREDTH anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the Spaniard--better known to the world as Maimonides--was celebrated throughout the world. It gave Jews, especially, the opportunity to call the
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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism.(Book review)
Philosophy East and West
; Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. By Menachem Kellner. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. Pp. 364. Hardcover. $49.50. Menachem Kellner's interesting and important book, Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, tries to situate Maimonides in his immediate Jewish
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Maimonides: A Biography.(Book review)
Shofar
; Maimonides: A Biography, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, translated by J. Neugroschel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote this biography of Maimonides in German when he was a young man of only twenty-eight, the first major work of Heschel's rich and varied career. It
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Maimonides and the Origins of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
; The philosophical roots of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) have usually been traced to the rationalist and stoic philosophers, but not to the 12th century physician-theologian, Maimonides. This paper argues that CBT has startling affinities with Maimonides's clinical methods of dealing with
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Maimon agonistes.(Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism)(Book review)
Midstream
; Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, By Menachem Kellner, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 343 pages, $49.50. Despite the reputation of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) as an unrivaled Talmudist and his stunning achievement as a codifier of Jewish law, to a significant degree he has, to
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Maimonides and mysticism
Jerusalem Post
; Jacob Neusner Jerusalem Post 06-25-1999 HOMO MYSTICUS. A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed by Jose Faur. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press. 266 pp. Price not stated. Jose Faur, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, brings to the study of Rabbinic Judaism mastery of three quite
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