Maimonides by Sherwin B Nuland

Maimonides by Sherwin B Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland--best-selling author of How We Die--focuses his surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors.

Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight hundred years after his death, his notions about God, faith, the afterlife, and the Messiah still stir debate; his life as a physician still inspires; and the enigmas of his character still fascinate. Nuland's portrait of Maimonides that makes his life, his times, and his thought accessible to the general reader as they have never been before.

Sherwin Nuland, M.D., is the author of bestselling nonfiction titles including How We Die, for which he won the National Book Award. He is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics.

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ISBN 13	9780805211504
ISBN 10	0805211500
Title	Maimonides
Author	Sherwin B Nuland
Series	Jewish Encounters Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Schocken
Year published	2008-08-26
Number of pages	256
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