The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries
David Sclar, "The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries"
English | ISBN: 180207788X | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 30 MB
English | ISBN: 180207788X | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Among 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 communal leader, and produced a myriad of writings on halakhah, theology, medicine, and philosophy that have attained near-canonical status. We have more source material from or about Maimonides than possibly any other Jewish figure in the medieval period, and more has been written about him than perhaps any other Jew in history. Epithets like the ‘Great Eagle’ and the ‘Western Light’ – and the glorifying statement ‘From Moses to Moses, none arose like Moses’ – reflect centuries of authority, influence, and fascination.
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