Maimonides, Teaching of Moses

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• Teaching of Moses Maimonides —     Teaching of Moses Maimonides     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Teaching of Moses Maimonides     Moses ben Maimun (Arabic, Abu Amran Musa), Jewish commentator and philosopher, was born of Spanish Jewish parents at Cordova in 1135. After sojourning …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Moses Maimonides, Teaching of — • Article by William Turner discusses this Jewish thinker s life and doctrines Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• MAIMONIDES, MOSES — (Moses ben Maimon; known in rabbinical literature as Rambam ; from the acronym Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon; 1135–1204), rabbinic authority, codifier, philosopher, and royal physician. BIOGRAPHY The most illustrious figure in Judaism in the post… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• MOSES — (Heb. מֹשֶׁה; LXX, Mōusēs; Vulg. Moyses), leader, prophet, and lawgiver (set in modern chronology in the first half of the 13th century B.C.E.). Commissioned to take the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses led them from his 80th year to his death at… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Maimonides Medical Center — 10th Avenue Geography Location 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City …   Wikipedia

• Moses Isserles — is commonly known as the Rema (Hebrew: רמ א‎). He should not be confused with Meir Abulafia, known as the Ramah (Hebrew: רמ ה‎). Moses Isserles Moses Isserles (Artist s rendering) …   Wikipedia

• Moses Mendelssohn — Portrait by Anton Graff, 1773 Full name Moses Mendelssohn Born September 6, 1729(1729 09 06) Died …   Wikipedia

• Moses ben Jacob of Coucy — (Hebrew: משה בן יעקב מקוצי) was a French Tosafist and authority on Halakha (Jewish law). He is best known as author of one of the earliest codifications of Halakha, the Sefer Mitzvot Gadol. Biography Moses of Coucy lived in the first half of the… …   Wikipedia

• Maimonides — For other uses, see Maimonides (disambiguation). Moses ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) 18 century portrait of Maimonides, from the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum by Blaisio Ugolino Full name Moses ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) Born 1135 …   Wikipedia

• Maimonides, Moses — orig. Moses ben Maimon born March 30, 1135, Córdoba died Dec. 13, 1204, Egypt Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He was obliged to practice his faith secretly after a revolutionary and fanatical Islamic sect, the Almohads, captured… …   Universalium