The Guide of the Perplexed : Complete in One Volume

Moses Maimonides

ISBN 10: 0226842592 / ISBN 13: 9780226842592

Published by The University Of Chicago Press Jul 2025, 2025

About this Item

Neuware - 'The Guide of the Perplexed, a monument of rabbinical exegesis written by Moses Maimonides at the end of the twelfth century, has exerted an immense and continuing influence on Jewish thought. Written as a letter to a disciple, The Guide of the Perplexed aims to liberate readers from a literal understanding of the Bible. It does so with an explanation of biblical terms related to key themes such as corporeality, place, humans, and nature. This reprint presents the Shlomo Pines translation, the gold standard for decades, in a single volume for the first time. It also features an extensive introduction to the study of the guide by Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Guide of the Perplexed : Complete in One Volume
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press Jul 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226842592
• ISBN 13: 9780226842592
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 253W x 189H x 42D millimeters 253 millimeters width by 189 millimeters height by 42 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1442 grams

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Synopsis

The classic translation of this most important medieval Jewish text, presented in one volume for the first time.

The twelfth-century Judeo-Arabic text The Guide of the Perplexed is a monument of rabbinical exegesis and one of the most important works in the history of Jewish thought. Written by Moses ben Maimon,commonly known as Maimonides, the Guide aims to liberate people from the perplexities that arise from an understanding of the Bible based only on its literal meaning.

Shlomo Pines’s translation has served students and scholars for decades, and it is presented here, with Leo Strauss’s influential introduction, in one volume for the first time.

About the Author

Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, and physician. He lived in Morocco and Egypt, among other places. Shlomo Pines (1908–1990) was a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1952 until his death. Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at St. John’s College.