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Hardcover Maimonides Book

ISBN: 0805242007

ISBN13: 9780805242003

Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)

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Sherwin B. Nuland--best-selling author of How We Die --focuses his surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors. Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight hundred years after his death, his notions about God, faith, the afterlife, and the Messiah still stir debate; his life as a physician still inspires; and the enigmas of his character still fascinate. Nuland's portrait of Maimonides that makes his life, his times, and his thought accessible to the general reader as they have never been before. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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