Studies in Maimonides and his interpreters
By: Marc B. Shapiro.
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Scranton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781589661653
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses, -- 1135-1204
Notes: The English section consists of essays by Marc Shapiro; the Hebrew section consists of letters and selections on Maimonides by various authors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index.

English and Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: [English section]. Principles of interpretation in Maimonidean halakhah: traditional and academic perspectives; title: To err is human; title: Old questions, modern answers; title: Maimonidean scholarship: some methodological issues; title: Maimonides and kabbalah; title: Maimonidean halakhah and superstition; title: A note on Maimonides and Muhammad; title: Hebrew section. Nahman Isaac Fischmann's letter to Samuel David Luzzatto; title: Letters from Rabbi Joseph Kafih; title: Selections from the writings of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg.