Idit Dobbs-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason, also published by SUNY Press. Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Aristotle's Politics Today (coedited with Robert B. Talisse); Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy (coedited with Heidi M. Ravven); and Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, all published by SUNY Press. James Allen Grady is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University.

"…an important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of Maimonides … This volume is also an eclectic mix of themes and scholarship." — Jewish Book World"The third section of the volume, on Maimonides in recent times, sets this apart from the many other books on the great man who died in 1204." — Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Maimonides as Biblical ExegeteArthur Hyman2. Philosophical Themes in Maimonides’ Sefer AhavahMenachem Kellner3. Maimonides on Joy Moshe Sokol4. Maimonides’ PsychologyAlfred L. Ivry5. Bahya and Maimonides on the Worth of MedicineLenn E. Goodman6. The Ambiguity of the Imagination and the Ambivalence of Language in Maimonides and SpinozaIdit Dobbs-Weinstein7. The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and MaimonGideon Freudenthal8. Persecution and the Art of Representation: Schocken’s Maimonides Anthologies of the 1930s Martina Urban9. Maimonides in the Crucible of Zionism: Reflections on Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Negative TheologyPaul Mendes-Flohr10. Can We Be Maimonideans Today?David NovakBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason, also published by SUNY Press. Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Aristotle's Politics Today (coedited with Robert B. Talisse); Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy (coedited with Heidi M. Ravven); and Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, all published by SUNY Press. James Allen Grady is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University.

"…an important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of Maimonides … This volume is also an eclectic mix of themes and scholarship." — Jewish Book World"The third section of the volume, on Maimonides in recent times, sets this apart from the many other books on the great man who died in 1204." — Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Maimonides as Biblical ExegeteArthur Hyman2. Philosophical Themes in Maimonides’ Sefer AhavahMenachem Kellner3. Maimonides on Joy Moshe Sokol4. Maimonides’ PsychologyAlfred L. Ivry5. Bahya and Maimonides on the Worth of MedicineLenn E. Goodman6. The Ambiguity of the Imagination and the Ambivalence of Language in Maimonides and SpinozaIdit Dobbs-Weinstein7. The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and MaimonGideon Freudenthal8. Persecution and the Art of Representation: Schocken’s Maimonides Anthologies of the 1930s Martina Urban9. Maimonides in the Crucible of Zionism: Reflections on Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Negative TheologyPaul Mendes-Flohr10. Can We Be Maimonideans Today?David NovakBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex