Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Moses Maimonide's Philosophy of Judaism (1x9)

Air date: Dec 19, 2005

The lecture examines the work of Moses Maimonides, the dominant cultural figure within the Jewish world of his day and for centuries following his death, and whose masterpiece, The Guide to the Perplexed, originally composed in Arabic, achieved a revered status within the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intellectual worlds.