Maimonides: Guide for Today's Perplexed - Softcover

Seeskin, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874415098 ISBN 13: 9780874415094

Publisher: Behrman House, 1996

Synopsis

The classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language.How should we describe God?What makes monotheism special?Why does evil exist in God's world?How will we know when the Messiah has come?Maimonides' philosophy and teachings, so significant to Jewish thought, made accessible to everyone.

About this title

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.

Review:

How should we describe God? What is so important about monotheism? If God created the universe, why is there evil? How will we know when the Messiah has come? These are among the questions that Maimonides contemplated in the 12th century. And they still perplex students of Judaism today. The classic questions in Maimonides: A Guide For Today's Perplexed are now addressed in modern language. The philosophy and teachings of Maimonides (the first interpreter of Judaism in Western terms) are accessible to every, not just theologians. Maimonides is ideal for young adults and older readers alike. --Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Behrman House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0874415098
• ISBN 13: 9780874415094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141