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Maimonides

A Biography

Abraham Joshua Heschel; Translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ISBN10: 0374517592
ISBN13: 9780374517595

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Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, in one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great medieval philosopher.

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Maimonides

PART ONE
Development and Maturity
1
Life in Exile
BETWEEN the Sahara and the much traveled Mediterranean Sea, between the monumental civilization of ancient Egypt...