Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works

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
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/09/2004
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.48w x 1.51d
ISBN: 9780195173215

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

About the Author

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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