Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Steven Schwarzschild—rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher—is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern.

A rigorous analysis of Maimonides' and Nahmanides' explanations of the Mosaic commandments that challenges received notions of the relation between these two se

The concept of the physician-priest is an ancient one existing pre-Christianity, and historic references to the role can be found within the majority of religio

This book presents a series of studies that cover a wide range of issues relating to Maimonides' political thought, including the basis for political and ethica