Maimonidean scholarship at the end of the century

It is astounding how much scholars find to say about the writings of Maimonides.1. Amazon.com lists 120 books with the name “Maimonides” in the title. (Yahoo.com lists 95. The Arizona State University Library, whose collection in Judaica, especially in Jewish philosophy, is in no way distinguished,...

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Subtitles:Review Essay
Main Author: Samuelson, Norbert Max 1936- (Author)
Contributors: Kreisel, Howard T. 1951- (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Faur, José (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Seeskin, Kenneth 1947- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2002]
In: AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-107
Review of:Maimonides' political thought (Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1999) (Samuelson, Norbert Max)
Maimonides' political thought (Albany : State University of New York Press, 1999) (Samuelson, Norbert Max)
Homo mysticus (Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 1998) (Samuelson, Norbert Max)
Searching for a distant God (New York : Oxford University Press, 2000) (Samuelson, Norbert Max)
Searching for a distant God (New York : Oxford University Press, 2000) (Samuelson, Norbert Max)
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