Danby herbert ed (2 Ergebnisse)

Binding sound, text unmarked. Zustand: Fine. No dustwrapper. Brown cloth, gilt, fresh and unfaded. Top edges slightly toned. Catalogue to rear. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xxii,23-148,16pp. No ownership marks.…

Hardcover. Zustand: vg- to near fine. First edition, second printing. 8vo. (xxi), 236pp. Original printed grey dust jacket with black lettering on covers and spine. Red buckram boards, gilt lettering on spine. The 9th book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from the Hebrew by Herbert Danby. Text is in English. Dust jacket with minor to light smudges and stains on front cover, spine sunned. Binding with minor bumping to the tail of the spine. Dust jacket in very good-, binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…