Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides ...

Works of Moses Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, were placed on exhibition last night at the Jewish Theological Seminary in connection with the 800th anniversary of the ...

Although it is the usual thing to dismiss the Middle Ages as the “Dark Ages,” it was during the latter half of this period that the foundations of modern medical science was formulated, an article on ...

(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...

Book Description: Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed - often considered the masterpiece of medieval Jewish philosophy - was originally composed in Arabic between 1185 and 1190-1191. It was ...

The work of Thomas Aquinas may be distinguished from that of any of his contemporaries by his attention to the writings of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), a Jew, and Avicenna, (980-1037) a Muslim. His ...