Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical ...

When Maimonides’s “Guide of the Perplexed” appeared in southern France during the early 1300s, translated from Arabic into Hebrew, many in the Jewish community were outraged. This philosophical ...

Beautiful is the “Prayer of Maimonides,” 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: “0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...