Maimonides after 800 Years - Essays on Maimonides and His Influence

Preface vii The Maimonidean Dynasty --- Between Conservatism and Revolution 1(18) Menahem Ben-Sasson Saadia's Halakhic Monographs and the Mishneh Torah 19(14) Robert Brody Beyond the Faithful Disciple Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Criticism of Maimonides 33(32) Carlos Fraenkel Maimonides on the Soul 65(16) Lenn E. Goodman What Is the Mishneh Torah? On Codification and Ambivalence 81(32) Moshe Halbertal The Image of Moses in Maimonides' Thought 113(22) Alfred Ivry Monotonically Decreasing Esoterism and the Purpose of The Guide of the Perplexed 135(16) Lawrence Kaplan Maimonides on Divine Religion 151(16) Howard Kreisel Tradition and Innovation in Maimonides' Attitude toward Other Religions 167(16) Daniel J. Lasker Maimonides in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Rashi's Resisting Readers 183(24) Eric Lawee Possible Sources of Maimonides' Theological Conservatism in His Later Writings 207(24) Charles H. Manekin The ``Rambam Revival'' in Early Modern Jewish Thought Maskilim, Mitnagdim, and Hasidim on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed 231(26) Allan Nadler Philosophy and Leadership in Maimonides 257(34) Aviezer Ravitzky Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy 291(16) James T. Robinson Literary Structure and Ethical Theory in Sefer ha-Madda' 307(20) Bernard Septimus Mishneh Torah: Polemic and Art 327 Haym Soloveitchik