Without Red Strings or Holy Water: Maimonides' Mishne Torah

by H. Norman Strickman

Maimonides was one of the greatest Jewish personalities of the Middle Ages: a halakhist par excellence, a great philosopher, a political leader of his community, and a guardian of Jewish rights. In 1180 CE, Maimonides composed his Halakhic magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, which can be described without exaggeration as the greatest code of Jewish law to be composed in the post-Talmudic era, unique in scope, originality, and language. In addition to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193623548X
• ISBN13: 9781936235483
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"