ha-Ḥomer ṿeha-tsurah be-Moreh nevukhim le-Rambam
Subtitle: The matter and form of Maimonides' Guide
By: Yosef Shṭern ; me-Anglit, Yoram Navon
Contributors: Navon, Yoram, translator
Series: Sifriyat "Helal Ben-Ḥayim"; Sifriyat "Helal Ben-Ḥayim."
Publisher: ha-K̇ibuts ha-meʼuḥad
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Tel Aviv
Language: heb
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Judaism; Doctrines; Jewish philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn (Maimonides, Moses)
Other titles: Matter and form of Maimonides' Guide
Work titles: Matter and form of Maimonides' guide
Description: Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed has traditionally been read as an attempt to harmonize reason and revelation. Another, more recent interpretation takes the contradiction between philosophy and religion to be irreconcilable, and concludes that the Guide prescribes religion for the masses and philosophy for the elite. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is not the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem but the tension between human matter and form, between the body and the intellect.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-366) and index.