Maimonides danby herbert (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 645 pages. Ex-library. No dust jacket.

hardcover. Condición: Good. book nine, volume four Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No DJ. 1st Edition. First Edition (1954.) Hardcover lacking dust jacket 8vo with 645 pages. The book is in very good condition with slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. Previous owner's book plate on the front paste down. "This book is an English translation of the Code of Maimonides. It contains the intricacies peculiar to the rules of cleanness and uncleanness."Red cloth spine/Gold text. Size: 8vo. Torah / Judaica.…

Hardcover, no dust jacket. VG 645 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: vg- to near fine. First edition, second printing. 8vo. (xxi), 236pp. Original printed grey dust jacket with black lettering on covers and spine. Red buckram boards, gilt lettering on spine. The 9th book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from the Hebrew by Herbert Danby. Text is in English. Dust jacket with minor to light smudges and stains on front cover, spine sunned. Binding with minor bumping to the tail of the spine. Dust jacket in very good-, binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…

21.5x14.5 cm. XXI+236 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition. The book is in : English.