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Maimonides
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Mai·mon·i·des  (m-mn-dz), Moses Originally Moses ben Maimon. Sometimes called "Rambam." 1135?-1204.
Spanish-born Egyptian physician, rabbi, and philosopher who codified the Talmud in the Mishneh Torah (1170-1180) and attempted to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish theology in Guide for the Perplexed (1190).
Maimonides [maɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz]
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(Biographies / Maimonides (1135-1204) M, Jewishnational of birth: Spanish, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, MEDICINE: physician, LAW: jurist) also called Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. 1135-1204, Jewish philosopher, physician, and jurist, born in Spain. He codified Jewish law in Mishneh Torah (1180)
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Noun1.Maimonides - Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)Maimonides - Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)
Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon
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Aa However, Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, denied that the restoration of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, one of 13 in Egypt, was related to Egypt's UNESCO candidacy "The restoration of the Ben Maimon temple began over 14 months ago, before Egypt announced the candidacy of Farouk Hosni," he said in a statement last Thursday.
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of Massachusetts-Amherst) explores the history of Judaism in a part of southern France also called Occitania, focusing on the decades immediately before and after 1300, a period, he says, when rabbinic culture took most seriously the idea of Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides to the Latin West) that the Torah had philosophical goals.
Philosophy and rabbinic culture; Jewish interpretation and ... by Reference & Research Book News
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (RaMBaM, Maimonides), wore many turbans.
Maimonides, then and now by Birnbaum, Ruth / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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