Maimonides (1135-1204), or Moses ben Maimon, was the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. His commentaries on, and codification of, the rabbinic tradition established him as a major religious authority in Judaism. Maimonides was born at...

The controversies generated by his major philosophical work, Dalalat al-Ha'irin (Guide of the Perplexed, 1190), from the time of its appearance in the late twelfth century to the present, attest to the preeminent position held by Moses Maimonides in...

Maimonides [addendum] Since Shlomo Pines's entry, scholars have come to accept 1138, not 1135, as the year of Maimonides' birth. Some scholars also believe that the youthful treatise on logic ( Millot ha-Higayon ) is not by Maimonides....

. Moses Maimonides, who was born in Cordova, Spain, in 1135, and died in Cairo, Egypt, in 1204, was the greatest medieval Jewish theologian and one of the most important medieval Aristotelians. The later Latin scholastics called him Rabbi Moyses...

1135-1204 Spanish Philosopher and Physician Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (or by the acronym RaM-BaM), had a tremendous impact on Judaism and philosophy, as well as medicine. His most significant contribution, however, is arguably in the...

(Moses b. Maimon. Ramban) (1135–1204) Codifier and philosopher. Maimonides’ great *Code of Law, the Mishneh Torah (‘Repetition of the law’) was written ‘to make the entire *Oral Law…accessible to young and...

Moses Maimonides (March 30 1135 Córdoba, Spain – December 13 1204 Fostat, Egypt), was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was one of the various medieval Jewish philosophers who also...

THE CONFERENCES THAT HAVE MARKED THE 800TH anniversary of the death of Maimonides have examined and assessed the many aspects of his thought and achievement. Scholarly books follow in their wake, including Herbert Davidson's encompassing Moses Maimonides, the Man and his Works. This is...

THE CONFERENCES THAT HAVE MARKED THE 800TH anniversary of the death of Maimonides have examined and assessed the many aspects of his thought and achievement. Scholarly books follow in their wake, including Herbert Davidson's encompassing Moses Maimonides, the Man and his Works. This...

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.The parchment, about "the size of a credit...

A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of probation.Ahmed Rashed, 27, pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of third-degree theft. If he...