(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...

When Maimonides’s “Guide of the Perplexed” appeared in southern France during the early 1300s, translated from Arabic into Hebrew, many in the Jewish community were outraged. This philosophical ...

It is well known that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), better known as “the Rav”, did not publish many works in his lifetime. This has led his disciples to posthumously publish books in his ...

Moses ben Maimon, also known as Rambam, and commonly called Maimonides, was the ultimate Jewish polymath. He was the court physician to the sultan Saladin, and author of the Mishnah Torah and The ...

Over the past three months, we have examined three distinct classical pieces of Jewish literature: the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Siddur, or Prayerbook. Now we turn to some of the great writers ...

A bas-relief of Maimonides, sculpted by Brenda Putnam, hangs in the U.S. House of Representatives among statues of historical lawmakers. Architect of the Capitol/Wikimedia I teach a philosophy of ...