Maimonides: Guide for Today's Perplexed - Tapa blanda

Seeskin, Kenneth

 
9780874415094: Maimonides: Guide for Today's Perplexed
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ISBN 10: 0874415098 ISBN 13: 9780874415094
Editorial: Behrman House, 1996

Sinopsis

The classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language.

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Reseña del editor

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.

Biografía del autor

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.

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Editorial
Behrman House
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0874415098
ISBN 13 
9780874415094
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Número de páginas
162
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