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Moses Maimonides : the man and his works / Herbert A. Davidson.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM755.M6 D38 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Herbert A. (Herbert Alan), 1932-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
- Maimonides, Moses.
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Teachings.
- Rabbis--Egypt--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Jewish scholars.
- Teachings.
- Egypt.
- Jewish scholars--Egypt--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 567 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial new biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his voluminous writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. This long-awaited volume is destined to become the standard work on this towering figure of Western intellectual history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 019517321X
- OCLC:
- 53919693
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