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Maimonides (1138-1204) and Later Jewish Theologians or Philosophers: Home

Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon; or Rambam רמב״ם) 1138-1204

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Imaginative 18th c. depiction of Maimonides

Maimonides' classic work, Guide for the Perplexed, has spawned volumes of works on Philosophy and Theology by the same title, "A Guide for the Perplexed"--see our series on this title

Select brief Reference sources:

Maimonides in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

Maimonides in Encyclopedia Judaica

Maimonidean Controversy in Encyclopedia Judaica

Moses Maimonides in Britannica

Wikipedia on Maimonides

Lectures on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah from the Chabod at Oxford

20 Maimonides Facts You Should Know in Jewish History

Select Books and Full-text Articles on Maimonides and Jewish Theology

NOTE: Hundreds more articles may be available on Maimonides that are not full-text online, but available from our library or via Interlibrary loan.  Simply use the online catalog as follows: If you are looking for books/articles written BY Maimonides you should search our online catalog or databases for his name as an AUTHOR (Moses Maimonides 1135-1204). If you want to find resources ABOUT Maimonides or his theology, search for Subjects related to him  ("Jewish Philosophy" or Judaism and philosophy, for example)

Here's a link to Books on Maimonides available at Luther Sem, but hundreds of others are available by interlibrary loan

Luther Sem subscriptions to academic periodicals in Jewish studies: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies  and Jewish Studies Quarterly and Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (all are full-text, with current issues online in ATLA)

Also consult the following databases for helpful articles or abstracts on Maimonides:  Both JSTOR and Open Access Theological Library have thousands  of book chapters or articles on Maimonides-- JSTOR linkOADTL link

Select Books on Maimonides at Luther Sem (**designates EBOOKS)

Recent books on Jewish Theology or Zionism (**designates EBOOKs)