The Code of Maimonides: Book Eleven - The Book of Torts (Yale Judaica Series - Volume IX)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. xvii, 299pp. Maroon cloth with gold decoration on spine in original printed dust jacket. The five treatises in this eleventh book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah are mainly concerned with civil and criminal law. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from the Hebrew by Hyman Klein. Text is in English. Some discoloration to boards and spine. Chipping and tearing to dj. Parts of head and tail of spine and upper right corner of dj missing. Library plate to inside of front board. Dj in fair, book in very good condition. g. Item #15909
R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.
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