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Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History by Craig Perry 9780691263571
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry... -
The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by P. Valkenberg 9789042915633
Booksplease Price: $57.20In history, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been both partners and rivals. The well-known parable of the three rings argues in a beautiful paradox how the religion most beloved by the other two... -
A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a–17b by Gerrit Bos
Booksplease Price: $123.44With A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols... -
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy Leo Strauss 9780226777009
Booksplease Price: $44.09One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973... -
Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays by Charles H. Manekin 9781107184190
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries... -
Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings of Modernity by Jude P. Dougherty 9780813236612
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Becoming What We Are is a collection of essays and reviews written in the last decade by the late Jude Dougherty, which covey a perspective on contemporary events and literature, written from a... -
![Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/812231/811942/9780226457635__71540.1687663363.jpg?c=1 "Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern")
Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $53.66Moses Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide... -
Maimonides' Moral Psychology: The Emotions, The Virtues, and The Good Life Alexander Green 9780197806937
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $80.82Moses Maimonides is undoubtedly the most famous rationalist of the Jewish tradition, portraying all of Torah as an intellectual project to know the deepest secrets of God and nature. This book,... -
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series by Reinhold F. Glei 9781538191743
Booksplease Price: $99.81Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since... -
Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence by Jay M. Harris
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $58.44Moses Maimonides was the most significant Jewish thinker, jurist, and doctor of the Middle Ages. Author of both a monumental code of Jewish law and the most influential and controversial work of... -
The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 by Mordechai Z. Cohen 9780812252125
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash-the creative and... -
Thinking Through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Robert J. Dobie 9780813231334
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval philosophy. Medieval thinkers argued a whole gamut... -
The Sabbath Anthology by Abraham E. Millgram 9780827613140
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long... -
Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest by David Hartman 9780827609112
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In his 1976 Maimonides: Torah and Philosophical Quest, David Hartman departs from traditional scholarly views about Maimonides by offering a new way of understanding the great man and his work. This... -
Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.41In this classic study, Herbert A. Davidson examines every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for the eternity of the world, the creation of the world and the existence of God which has philosophical... -
Maimonides the Rationalist by Herbert A. Davidson
RRP: $37.60Booksplease Price: $26.65Maimonides was not the first rabbinic scholar to take an interest in philosophy, but he was unique in being a towering figure in both areas. His law code, the Mishneh torah, stands with Rashi's... -
Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders by S. D. Goitein 9780691618777
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $60.42Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish... -
The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels by Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.33Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker... -
The Golden Path: Maimonides Through Eight Centuries by David Sclar 9781802077889
Booksplease Price: $40.20Among the intellectual luminaries dotting the millennia of Jewish history, none shines brighter than Maimonides (1138-1204). He was a rabbi, jurist, Talmudist, philosopher, physician, astronomer, and... -
Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period by Lawrence Fine
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.47This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals, legal codes, mystical... -
Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought by Menachem Kellner 9781906764951
Booksplease Price: $52.45Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition 'consists of a series... -
The Columbia History of Western Philosophy by Richard H. Popkin 9780231101295
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $42.44Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from... -
![A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" by Diana Lobel 9780812239539](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2375191/2374540/9780812239539__18922.1712886294.jpg?c=1 "A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" by Diana Lobel 9780812239539")
A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" by Diana Lobel 9780812239539
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $76.70Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is a profound guidebook of Jewish spirituality that has enjoyed... -
Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought James A. Diamond 9781835539958
Booksplease Price: $45.85Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition 'consists of a series... -
Judaism: An Introduction by Oliver Leaman 9781848853959
Booksplease Price: $36.86The story of Judaism is a story of paradox. It is the story of how a small cluster of desert tribes gave birth to a monotheistic doctrine that profoundly shaped the history of human civilization. It... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691158518
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.61Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.95Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious...