A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical lawmakers. Architect of the Capitol/Wikimedia I teach a philosophy of ...
A 500-year-old edition of Moses ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or by his Hebrew acronym Rambam)’s “Guide for the Perplexed” is going to be auctioned at a starting price of $1 million on Tuesday.
When Maimonides’s “Guide of the Perplexed” appeared in southern France during the early 1300s, translated from Arabic into Hebrew, many in the Jewish community were outraged. This philosophical ...
(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...