Maimonides and His Heritage

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Examines the Jewish philospher's influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Maimonides as Biblical Exegete	p. 1
Philosophical Themes in Maimonides' Sefer Ahavah	p. 13
Maimonides on Joy	p. 37
Maimonides' Psychology	p. 51
Bahya and Maimonides on the Worth of Medicine	p. 61
The Ambiguity of the Imagination and the Ambivalence of Language in Maimonides and Spinoza	p. 95
The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and Maimon	p. 113
Persecution and the Art of Representation: Schocken's Maimonides Anthologies of the 1930s	p. 153
Maimonides in the Crucible of Zionism: Reflections on Yeshayahu Leibowitz's Negative Theology	p. 181
Can We Be Maimonideans Today?	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 211
List of Contributors	p. 225
Index Locorum	p. 227
Subject Index	p. 237
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