ABSTRACT

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the Guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation rather than as evidence of some esoteric meaning hidden in the text.

chapter 1|11 pages

Enframing

chapter 3|23 pages

What we can say about God

The philosophical theology of the Guide

chapter 4|19 pages

What we can say about Creation

Marvin Fox on how to read the Guide

chapter 7|13 pages

A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide

Some further details

chapter 8|25 pages

Showing that which cannot be Said

In Tolstoy and in the Torah