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ARTICLES RELATED TO Guide for the Perplexed - About the work | | | |  Guide for the Perplexed - About the work: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - About the workThe work was written in the 12th century in the form of a letter to his student Rabbi Joseph, the son of Rabbi Judah, but it became popular within Maimonides' lifetime, with many Jewish communities requesting copies of the manuscript. The work is also the most universal, as many of the concepts are not restricted to Judaism, and as such, it has been the work most commonly associated with Maimonides in the non-Jewish world.
According to Maimonides, the main purpose of the work is to expound on Maaseh Bereishit and Maaseh Merk ...
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| | | | Guide for the Perplexed - About the work: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - Structure The work is divided into three books.
Guide for the Perplexed - Book One.
The book begins with Maimonides' thesis against anthropomorphism. In the Bible, one can find many expressions which describe God in human terms, for instance the "hand of God". Maimonides was strongly against what he believed to be a heresy present in unlearned Jews who then assume God to be cor ...
See also:Guide for the Perplexed, Guide for the Perplexed - About the work, Guide for the Perplexed - Structure, Guide for the Perplexed - Book One, Guide for the Perplexed - Book Two, Guide for the Perplexed - Book Three, Guide for the Perplexed - How to read the Guide, Guide for the Perplexed - Reactions and Criticism, Guide for the Perplexed - Translations Read more here: » Guide for the Perplexed: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - Structure |
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| | | | Guide for the Perplexed - About the work: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - Translations The original version of the Guide was written in Arabic. The first Hebrew translation was written by a contemporary of Maimonides, Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon (south France). This Hebrew edition has been used for many centuries.
The first complete English translation was "The Guide for the Perplexed", by M. Friedlander, with Mr. Joseph Abrahams and Reverevd H. Gollancz, in 1881. It was originally published in a two volume edition with footnotes. In 1904 it was republished in a cheaper one volume edition, without footnotes, with revisi ...
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| | | | Guide for the Perplexed - About the work: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - How to read the Guide By Maimonides' own design, most readers of the Guide have come to the conclusion that his beliefs were generally orthodox, i.e. in line with the thinking of most rabbis of his day. However the great majority of Maimonidean scholars hold that this is not correct. Many readers miss Maimonides' statement that he will not openly state any controversial views. He wrote that his Guide was addressed to only a select and educated readership, and that he is proposing ideas that are deliberately concealed from the masses. He writes in the introduction ...
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| | | | Guide for the Perplexed - About the work: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - Reactions and Criticism Many of his ideas were rejected as heretical by many other Jews. His Guide was often banned. See the entry "Maimonidean Controversy, under Maimonides, in volume 11 of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Keter Publishing, and Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought by Menachem Kellner.
As might be expected, the adversaries of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah declared war against the "Guide." His views concerning angels, prophecy, and miracles—and especially his assertion that he would have had no difficulty in reconciling the biblical account ...
See also:Guide for the Perplexed, Guide for the Perplexed - About the work, Guide for the Perplexed - Structure, Guide for the Perplexed - Book One, Guide for the Perplexed - Book Two, Guide for the Perplexed - Book Three, Guide for the Perplexed - How to read the Guide, Guide for the Perplexed - Reactions and Criticism, Guide for the Perplexed - Translations Read more here: » Guide for the Perplexed: Encyclopedia II - Guide for the Perplexed - Reactions and Criticism |
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