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	Medieval Sourcebook: Maimonides: The 13 Principles and the Resurrection of the Dead
		Maimonides, in his commentary on the Mishnah, compiles what he refers to as the Shloshah-Asar Ikkarim, the Thirteen Articles of Faith, compiled from Judaism's 613 commandments found in the Torah.
		The thirteenth and final principle of Maimonides' Fundamental Articles of Jewish faith is the belief in the resurrection of the dead.
		Because Maimonides dealt summarily with the question of resurrection, and did not elaborate upon it as he did in regard to the other Articles of Faith, there were those among his contemporaries who criticized him for this summary treatment of this important topic.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/rambam13.html (5297 words)

	Maimonides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maimonides primarily relied upon the science of Aristotle and the philosophies of the Talmud and Aristotle, commonly finding basis in the former for the latter.
		Maimonides distinguishes two kinds of intelligence in man, the one material in the sense of being dependent on, and influenced by, the body, and the other immaterial, that is, independent of the bodily organism.
		Maimonides was brought into this dispute by both sides, as the first group stated that his writings agreed with them, and the second group portrayed him as a heretic for writing that the afterlife is for the immaterial spirit alone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maimonides (2869 words)

	Maimonides - Wikipedia
		Moses Maimonides), mest kjend som Maimonides, var ein jødisk doktor, rabbinar og filosof som er særleg kjend for det halakhiske verket Misjné Torá og boka Dalālat al-ha’irīn (meir kjent som Moré nebukhím eller Dei rådvilles lærar) — ei bok som søkjer å harmonisere jødedommen med vitskap og aristotelisk filosofi.
		Maimonides var ein av dei få jødiske filosofane som òg hadde stor innverknad på den ikkje-jødiske verda — både innanfor kristendommen og innanfor islam.
		Maimonides var utan samanlikning den mest innflytnadsrike personen i jødisk tenkjing i mellomalderen.
	nn.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maimonides (511 words)

	Moses Maimonides at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Moses Ben Maimon, whom we know today as Maimonides or Rambam, was born in 1135 in Cordoba, Spain to a scholarly family.
		Moses Maimonides was born Moses ben Maimon in Cordoba, Spain, on March 30, 1135, to an educated, distinguished family.
		Maimonides also lectured at the local hospital, maintained a private practice, and was a leader in the Jewish community...
	www.erraticimpact.com /~medieval/html/moses_maimonides.htm (534 words)

	The Mind of Maimonides
		Maimonides died in 1204, and, according to tradition, was buried in Tiberius in the land of Israel.
		Thus Maimonides’ positive task as a theologian—jurist was to justify intellectually the commandments of the Torah and the supplementary edicts of the rabbis.
		Maimonides is quite clear that a normative teaching is considered divine not so much because of its origins in revelation, but, rather, because it directs a human community to ends first human ("the repair of the body"), then divine ("the repair of the soul").
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9902/articles/novak.html (5060 words)

	MOSES MAIMONIDES
		Moses Maimonides, affectionately referred to as the "Rambam" (in Jewish circles) is considered the greatest Talmudist (a person knowledgeable in Rabbinic commentaries of Jewish law), physician and philosopher in Jewish history.
		Maimonides also established for himself a considerable reputation as a physician and in 1170 was appointed physician to the royal court of the sultan of
		Maimonides was the first to challenge these teachings and on the basis of his own experiments, developed many new and radical cures.
	www.jdstone.org /cr/files/mosesmaimonides.html (808 words)

	Moses Maimonides
		Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) was born in Córdoba, Spain, as the first son of Rabbi Maimon ben Joseph, a highly respected, eighth-generation dayyan -- a judge of the rabbinical court.
		Maimonides was born on Nisan 14, on Passover's eve, and heard the tales of the Biblical Moses since early childhood.
		Maimonides felt that the Biblical Moses achieved this state, similar to that of an angel or a pure spirit, because he liberated himself from desire, from the tyranny of his senses, and from the power of his imagination.
	www.worldjewishnewsagency.org /moses_maimonides.htm (2536 words)

	ipedia.com: Maimonides Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Maimonides wrote much on this topic, but in most cases he wrote about the immortality of the soul for people of perfected intellect; his writings were not about any resurrection of dead bodies.
		Maimonides accepts only the Book of Daniel as definitively stating that "many of them that sleep in the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence" (12:2), referring to a physical resurrection of the dead, which clearly would be a miracle.
		Maimonides also states that the layman's understanding of the term "angel" is ignorant in the extreme; the Bible's and Talmud's references to "angels" are really metaphors for the various laws of nature, or the principles by which the physical universe operates, or kinds of Platonic eternal forms.
	www.ipedia.com /maimonides.html (2276 words)

	:: Moses Maimonides @ Gothic Paris :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Moses Maimonides, known also as Moses ben Maimon and Ramban (an anogrammatic abbreviation), was born in Cordova, Spain, at one o' clock in the afternoon on March 30, 1135.
		Maimonides feared their waxing power might eventually lead to an assimilation by them of the whole Jewish community, thus leading to a contamination of Jewish rituals and sacred places by the "impure" Karaites, which Talmudic law strictly forbade.
		Maimonides and Aquinas both rejected positive attributes of God because they believed this led to polytheism: "An attribute does not exclusively belong to the one object to which it is related?it can also be employed to qualify other things" (Maimonides 81).
	www.nku.edu /~providenti/paris/bios/moses.html (3498 words)

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		Maimonides was born in the Spanish city of Cordoba at a time when about one-fifth of the people in southern Spain were Jews.
		Elsewhere Maimonides notes that a number of changes to the Torah do exist, and that he needed to travel to other cities to compare the text of their Torah to his, in order to edit a reliable text.
		MOSES MAIMONIDES, a renowned twelfth-century rabbi, philosopher, and physician, practiced in the court of Saladin (11371193), sultan of Egypt and Syria.
	www.lycos.com /info/maimonides--moses-maimonides.html (583 words)

	Alibris: Moses Maimonides
		Maimonides, best known as the great codifier of Jewish law and philosophic master of Jewish and medieval thought, is largely unappreciated for his role as a statesman and leader.
		Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), physician, scientist, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian, emerged as a halakhist through his classic work, Commentary on the Mishnah, in which he sets out to explain to the layman the meaning and the purpose of the Mishnah, while bypassing the often complicated and concentrated discussions of the Gemara.
		Maimonides, one of the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, was a prolific author of influential Arabic philosophical and medical treatises and two of the most important works on Jewish law.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Moses_Maimonides (885 words)

	Maimonides (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Maimonides takes this to mean that it is possible for a being not affected by external circumstances to will something new as long as it is part of his original intention.
		Maimonides takes this to mean that the ideal state is one in which a person acts in a completely dispassionate way deciding cases on their merit without recourse to feeling.
		If Maimonides were to remain true to his word and accept the strongest argument wherever it leads, as far as Spinoza's is concerned, he would have to embrace the new science, the eternity of the world, and the necessity of every event that takes place in it.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/maimonides (8377 words)

	Ahl al-kitâb (People of the Book)
		For Maimonides, the [p.14] point of view of the Karaites led to a rejection of the notion of divine legislation which was the foundation of Judaism.
		Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages and the
		Maimonides criticized the teachings of Islamic and Jewish theologians who were relying mainly on their imagination rather than on reason and consequently were not able to give satisfactory explanations of the existence, unity, and incorporeality of God.
	www.csulb.edu /~dsteiger/maimonides.htm (1730 words)

	FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Maimonides’ work itself might be seen as a response to three challenges to his understanding of Judaism: 1) the Jewish tradition itself, 2) Greek natural science, metaphysics, and ethics/politics ("philosophy" in the broad Platonic-Aristotelian sense) as transmitted through Arabic sources, and 3) Christianity and Islam.
		Thus Maimonides’ positive task as a theologian-jurist was to justify intellectually the commandments of the Torah and the supplementary edicts of the rabbis.
		Maimonides relied on philosophical paradigms of his own day (especially cosmic teleology) that have long since lost their value for us at a different point in history.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9902/novak.html (5119 words)

	Guide for the Perplexed: The Life of Moses Maimonides
		Moses, the son of Maimon, was born at Cordova, on the 14th of Nisan, 4895 (March 30, 1135).
		Maimonides therefore undertook to compile a complete code, which would contain, in the language and style of the Mishnah, and without discussion, the whole of the Written and the Oral Law, all the precepts recorded in the Talmud, Sifra, Sifre and Tosefta, and the decisions of the Geonim.
		Maimonides replied that he could not do so, as he had not sufficient leisure for even more pressing work, and that a translation was being prepared by the ablest and fittest man, Rabbi Samuel Ibn Tibbon.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/gfp/gfp004.htm (5085 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Moses Maimonides, philosopher: Moses Maimonides, philosopher
		Moses Maimonides is regarded by many as the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages.
		Maimonides was born in Cordoba in 1135, the centre of Jewish learning and Islamic culture.
		Maimonides, living in the religious melting pot of North Africa, was hugely influenced by all the faiths surrounding him.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/judaism/people/maimonides.shtml (433 words)

	Maimonides/Rambam
		Maimonides also formulated a credo of Judaism expressed in thirteen articles of faith, a popular reworking of which (the Yigdal prayer) appears in most Jewish prayerbooks.
		Maimonides was one of the few Jewish thinkers whose teachings also influenced the nonJewish world; much of his philosophical writings in the Guide were about God and other theological issues of general, not exclusively Jewish, interest.
		Maimonides scholar Shlomo Pines delivered perhaps the most accurate assessment at the conference: “Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, and quite possibly of all time” (Time magazine, December 23, 1985).
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/Maimonides.html (1159 words)

	The Good Doctor; How the philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides speaks to us Weekly Standard, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Maimonides was much more than a scholar, and in the latest chronicle of his life and work, the physician-author Sherwin Nuland emphasizes his roles as a court physician in 12th-century Egypt, and as a statesman whose authority came to be recognized in Jewish communities throughout the world.
		Maimonides' outspoken opposition to the practice of the day--allowing rabbis and scholars to live off community support--led him to pursue the practice of medicine.
		Maimonides, who wrote with bold self-confidence, was not one to shrink from controversy, and many of the debates he provoked stemmed from allegoric explanations of Talmudic texts and Biblical tales, his conception of the proper understanding of anthropomorphism, attempts to rationalize miracles, and his understanding of central theological concepts such as afterlife and bodily resurrection.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RMQ/is_13_11/ai_n16129882 (768 words)

	Maimonides, Moses (1138-1204)
		Maimonides' philosophic masterpiece, the Dalalat al-Ha'irin or Guide to the Perplexed, was written in Arabic, with a view to helping the more intellectually inquisitive readers of the Torah, who were troubled by the apparent disparity between biblical and scientific/philosophical ideas.
		Rather, Maimonides argues, creation is preferable to its alternative, and more plausible, because it preserves the idea of divine volition as an explanation for the emergence of complexity from divine simplicity, and because it marks the difference God's act made to the existence and nature of the world.
		Maimonides' synthetic approach, accommodating to one another the insights of reason and the teachings of Scripture and tradition, was highly valued by Aquinas, who frequently cites him, and by other European philosophers such as Jean Bodin.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/J014.htm (6053 words)

	Moses Maimonides of Egypt
		Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Rambam), was the most influential Jewish thinker since the Moses of the Bible or Torah.
		Maimonides’ most famous work is Guide to the Perplexed, an explanation of God’s infinite perfection addressed to a disciple who was troubled by disputes in philosophy and theology.
		To find out more about Moses Maimonides and the "Theory of Everything" he shares in common with Avicenna, Aquinas and Mahdvacharya, read the book The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God by Roy Abraham Varghese.
	mosesmaimonides.com (1022 words)

	Maimonides/Rambam
		Maimonides also formulated a credo of Judaism expressed in thirteen articles of faith, a popular reworking of which (the Yigdal prayer) appears in most Jewish prayerbooks.
		Maimonides was one of the few Jewish thinkers whose teachings also influenced the nonJewish world; much of his philosophical writings in the Guide were about God and other theological issues of general, not exclusively Jewish, interest.
		Maimonides scholar Shlomo Pines delivered perhaps the most accurate assessment at the conference: “Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, and quite possibly of all time” (Time magazine, December 23, 1985).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Maimonides.html (1159 words)

	The Sabians of Moses Maimonides Writing
		To Maimonides the Sabians are the typical pagans, in particular astrologers.
		What I believe has happened in Maimonides’ book is that he wrote what he knew or heard about the Harranians and that he was unaware that their religion, as he conceived it, was a fairly late creation.
		Maimonides wrote that the idolaters pray to the morning sun in the east.
	www.geocities.com /mandaeans/Sabians7.html (2348 words)

	Morality and the Law in Moses Maimonides
		Maimonides is carefully telling us that when applied to the rational faculty, "proper and improper" should be read to mean "true and false." This reading is confirmed later in the passage where he writes "[m]oral virtues belong to the appetitive faculty,"
		Maimonides rejects this argument saying that if compassion for animals were a moral requirement, we would be prohibited from eating meat.
		Maimonides is firmly of the belief that Torah is complete and true, that we should neither add nor detract from it lest we judge G-d's purpose for enacting it.
	members.core.com /~dshulman/rambammorality.html (5327 words)

	Maimonides' Commentary to the Mishnah
		Maimonides composed his Mishnah commentary between the ages of twenty-three and thirty (between the years 1145 and 1168).
		Maimonides' Mishnah Commentary, written in Arabic, was a pioneering work when it was composed, in that for the majority Jews who followed the authority of the Babylonian academies it was not the normal practice to study the Mishnah as a separate topic, outside of the study of the Babylonian Talmud.
		The commentary thereby has many of the characteristics of a normative law code, and may be regarded as a preliminary stage in the composition of his own comprehensive law code, the Mishneh Torah.
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/TalmudMap/Mishnah/MMaim.html (553 words)

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