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An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza: Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics by Norman L. Whitman 9783030494711
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the... -
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings by Charles H. Manekin 9780521549516
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $63.90Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a 'lost' Jewish philosophical tradition. As part of this project they... -
An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza: Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics by Norman L. Whitman 9783030494742
Booksplease Price: $192.95This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the... -
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy Leo Strauss 9780226777009
Booksplease Price: $71.78One 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... -
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide by Daniel Frank
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $157.35Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas,... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521104630
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $86.06Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide by Daniel Frank 9781108727600
Booksplease Price: $52.58Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas,... -
Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays by Charles H. Manekin 9781107184190
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Moses 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Becoming 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... -
Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson 9780878204533
Booksplease Price: $90.26It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521831031
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
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Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $87.36Moses 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... -
Jewish Philosophy: A Historical Introduction by Norbert M. Samuelson 9780826492449
Booksplease Price: $191.92"Jewish Philosophy: An Historical Introduction" surveys the history of Jewish philosophy, from the formation of the Hebrew Scriptures to the present time. The book is intended as a text for courses... -
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series by Reinhold F. Glei 9781538191743
Booksplease Price: $162.48Since 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... -
Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice by Oliver Leaman 9781032271996
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $93.95Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary... -
Maimonides' Moral Psychology: The Emotions, The Virtues, and The Good Life Alexander Green 9780197806937
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $131.57Moses 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,... -
Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence by Jay M. Harris
RRP: $115.40Booksplease Price: $95.13Moses 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: $184.80Booksplease Price: $150.02Within 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... -
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Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority by Menachem Kellner 9780791429228
Booksplease Price: $51.14Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the... -
Thinking Through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Robert J. Dobie 9780813231334
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74Navigating 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: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82Back 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 and His Heritage by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 9780791476567
Booksplease Price: $53.63This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138-1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over... -
Judaism in Marcel Proust: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, and Judaic Perspectives in Art by Bette H. Lustig 9781433120343
RRP: $135.35Booksplease Price: $120.77Through detailed in-depth exegeses of Proust's literary texts (A la Recherche du temps perdu, Jean Santeuil, and Contre Sainte-Beuve), Judaism in Marcel Proust: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, and... -
Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy by Steven Nadler
Booksplease Price: $67.45Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading... -
Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest by David Hartman 9780827609112
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In 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... -
Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought: From Maimonides to Abravanel by Menachem Kellner 9781904113218
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $43.39Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought is an essay in the history of ideas which traces the development of creed formation in Judaism from its inception with Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) to the... -
Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $77.18In 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... -
Without Red Strings or Holy Water: Maimonides' Mishne Torah by H. Norman Strickman 9781936235483
Booksplease Price: $157.92Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of his community, and a guardian of Jewish rights. In... -
The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy by Robert Eisen 9780195171532
Booksplease Price: $241.88This book analyzes the history of the interpretation of the book of Job by medieval Jewish exegetes. The scholarship on medieval Jewish thought has focused largely on the systematic philosophical... -
Dictionary of Jewish Biography by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9780826480408
Booksplease Price: $87.51"The Dictionary of Jewish Biography" provides a rapid reference to those Jewish men and women who have, over the last four thousand years, contributed to the life, history and study of Judaism in all... -
Maimonides the Rationalist by Herbert A. Davidson
RRP: $61.22Booksplease Price: $43.39Maimonides 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... -
Faith, Reason, Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought by Michah Gottlieb 9781936235872
RRP: $169.05Booksplease Price: $124.95The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious... -
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis by David Bakan 9781438427461
Booksplease Price: $54.75Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides' work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... -
Playing the Ghost of Maimonides John Agard 9781780373096
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In this new collection, he puts on the... -
Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders by S. D. Goitein 9780691618777
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $98.36Modern 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... -
Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies by Joel L. Kraemer 9781874774266
RRP: $65.84Booksplease Price: $43.39Leading scholars have combined forces to produce this volume on the philosophy and legal views of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) and the historical context in which he worked. The philosophical ... -
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed by James Arthur Diamond 9780791452486
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $46.85Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.Winner of the 2003 Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic... -
Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period by Lawrence Fine
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.56This 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... -
The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels by Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.66Born 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: $65.44Among 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...