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In this original study, noted scholar and theologian David Hartman discusses the relation between Maimonides' halakhic writings and The Guide of the Perplexed--a connection much closer than is generally supposed. Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest demonstrates that Maimonides' total philosophic endeavor was an attempt to show how the free search for truth, established through the study of logic, physics, and metaphysics, can live harmoniously with a way of life defined by the normative traditions of Judaism.
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In his original 1976 version of Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest, noted scholar and theologian David Hartman departs from traditional scholarly views about Maimonides by offering a new way of understanding the great 12th-century philosopher and his work. The best-known works by Maimonides, his Mishneh Torah and Guide to the Perplexed, have often been viewed by scholars as having different audiences and different messages, together reflecting the two sides of the author himself.
Hartman examines these two sides of Maimonides: the halakhist, who focused on piety through obedience to Jewish law, and the philosopher, who advocated closeness to God through reflection and knowledge of nature. But while many scholars look at one aspect of Maimonides to the exclusion of the other, Hartman argues that the way to really understand him is to see both adherence to the law and philosophical pursuits as two essential aspects of Judaism.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, this expanded edition of Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest includes the original study as well as Hartman's new postscript that sheds new light on his argument and indeed on Judaism as Maimonides interpreted it.
David Hartman is founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, the world-renown center for the study of classical Jewish sources and of contemporary Israeli and Jewish issues. He is the author of A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism and Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future. Dr. Hartman received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University and his PhD in philosophy from McGill University.
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- PublisherJEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
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