Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Maimonides, the Educator

New York: Pedagogic Library, (1970). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 112pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Fascinating study focusing on the educational ideas and practices of Maimonides. Contents: The History of the Jews in Spain. The Life Story of Maimonides. A Brief History of Jewish Education. The Educational Ideas of Maimonides. Ex-library copy. Library inventory sticker taped across spine. Two library stamps on title-page. Abrasions from previous sticker on rear wrapper, abrasions from previous library card pocket on inside of rear wrapper, otherwise in good to very good condition. g. Item #24894

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 due to Almohad persecution of Jews. 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 and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. 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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