By Maimonides Maimonides
ISBN: 0486203514
Great vintage of medieval Judaism, significant try and reconcile published faith — Pentateuch, commentaries — and Aristotelian philosophy. tremendously vital in all Western idea. contains lifetime of Maimonides, research of The advisor, indexes of quotations from Scripture, Talmud. Unabridged Friedlander translation. 50-page creation. "...a nice impression on Jewish and Christian scholasticism." — Jewish Civic Press.
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In the preface he dwells on the merits of the Moreh as the just mediator between religion and philosophy. The commentary of Shem-tob is profuse, and includes almost a paraphrase of the text. He apologises in conclusion for having written many superfluous notes and added ex planation where no explanation was required; his excuse is that he did not only intend to write a commentary (biur) but also a work complete in itself (hibbur). He often calls the reader’s attention to things which are plain and clear.
Bodl. . He quotes in his Commentary among others ‘Arama’s ‘Akedat yizhak. The Preface is written by Immanuel ben Raphael Ibn Meir, after the death of the author. Efodi is the name of the Commentary written by Isaac ben Moses, who during the persecution of had passed as Christian under the name of Profiat Duran. He re turned to Judaism, and wrote against Christianity the famous satire “Al tehee ka aboteka” (“Be not like your Fathers”), which misled Christians to cite it as written in favour of Christianity.
A herem was proclaimed from Lunel and Narbonne against This Library PDF version is for the use on an institutional computer only. com << Chapter >> Home | TOC | Index GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED xxxvii the Anti-Maimonists. The son of Maimonides, Abraham, wrote a pamphlet Milhamot adonai, in defence of the writings of his father. The controversy raised about fifty years later by Abba Mari Don Astruc and R. Solomon ben-Aderet of Barcelona, concerned the Moreh less directly. The question was of a more general character: Is the study of philosophy dangerous to the religious belief of young students?