Maimonides: a Guide for Today's Perplexed

Maimonides - Seeskin, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 0874415098 / ISBN 13: 9780874415094

Published by October 2009, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maimonides: a Guide for Today's Perplexed
• Publisher: October 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874415098
• ISBN 13: 9780874415094
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language.

About the Author

Kenneth Seeskin received his BA from Northwestern University in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972. He joined the faculty of Northwestern in 1972 and has taught there ever since. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides and co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Culture, and Religion. In 2001, he won the Koret Jewish Book Award for Searching for a Distant God and, in 2011, the National Jewish Book Award for The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Culture, and Religion. In 2009, Seeskin was named Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization.