Works by Maimonides, Nachmanides and Rashi
I can't believe these haven't been suggested before:
- Maimonides (Rambam): preferably all the theological and philosophical works, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides#Judaic_and_philosophical_works
- Nachmanides (Ramban): the Commentary on the Torah should be the most interesting
- Rashi: the Tanach commentaries
I would also want a really good book comparing Aquinas to Maimonides (I suspect he borrowed quite a bit). Anyone knows of one?
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Regarding your question: You might take a look on Idit Dobbs-Weinstein's "Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason" (State University of New York Press).
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Theolobias said:
You might take a look on Idit Dobbs-Weinstein's "Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason" (State University of New York Press).
Yes, I saw that when I searched Amazon before posting, but it seemed fairly limited in scope, and there were no reviews. Have you actually read it, then?
My primary interest would be comparing what they had to say about the nature of God and so on. Anything that has bearing on the issues of monotheism and Trinity. My secondary interest would be to find out how much, and what, Thomas borrowed from Maimonides in general. But I don't intend to buy anything now. I just want something in Logos by the time they publish Maimonides (which they must surely do at some point).
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fgh said:
Have you actually read it, then?
Unfortunately not - I stumbled upon it when I did a research on Thomas in the German "Theologische Realenzyklopedie", where it is listed as a monography. My first thought was the same: that it is likely rather limited in its approach. I then did a Google Books search and found a miscellany called "St. Thomas Aquinas & the Natural Law Tradition" - there are two contributions dealing with Maimonides with bibliographical references to Dobbs-Weinstein, another English and some German titles, which could be interesting. But that's all I found on the two of them so far. It seems like someone has to write that kind of book you're asking for, first.
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And one more:
Mercedes Rubio: "Aquinas and Maimonides on the Possibility of the Knowledge of God"
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fgh said:- Nachmanides (Ramban): the Commentary on the Torah should be the most interesting
- Rashi: the Tanach commentaries
If you're interested in Jewish commentators, I would suggest an edition of the Miqra'ot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible). I don't know of a complete English translation, but Logos could start with the three available volumes of the JPS Commentator's Bible:
Link to Commentator's Bible - JPS: http://www.jewishpub.org/author.php?id=191
Linkt to Commentator's Bible - Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Commentators-Bible-Miqraot-Gedolot-Exodus/dp/0827608128/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
Two other interesting publishers are Soncino Press and ArtScroll, but they have made no books available in Logos (yet).
fgh said:I would also want a really good book comparing Aquinas to Maimonides (I suspect he borrowed quite a bit). Anyone knows of one?
Since Theolobias already suggested some monographs, I can only advise you also to look for articles in journals, (jewish) encyclopaedia(s), etc. I haven't read the following, but they look interesting to me:
Jacob Dienstag (ed.) 1975, Studies in Maimonides and St Thomas Aquinas.
José Luis Cantón Alonso (ed.) 2007, Maimónides y el pensamiento medieval: VIII centenario de la muerte de Maimónides. Actas del IV Congreso Nacional de Filosofía Medieval (Córdoba 2004). [Om du kan tala/läsa spanska!]
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fgh said:
I can't believe these haven't been suggested before:
- Maimonides (Rambam): preferably all the theological and philosophical works, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides#Judaic_and_philosophical_works
- Nachmanides (Ramban): the Commentary on the Torah should be the most interesting
- Rashi: the Tanach commentaries
I would also want a really good book comparing Aquinas to Maimonides (I suspect he borrowed quite a bit). Anyone knows of one?
Logos already publishes 3 works in the classic midrash collection (http://www.logos.com/product/3002/jps-classic-midrash-collection), I don't know of any reason they wouldn't also wish to publish these obviously important works. There are probably considerations which have thus far prevented it of which we aren't aware, but I would encourage them to pursue that objective.
george
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Theolobias, Hendrik-Jan
Thanks for trying! I'd already seen all of them, except for the Spanish one, on Amazon, but they all have the same problem: limited scope and no reviews. The Rubio one looks the most promising, but I wish someone had read it. Well, no hurry. I won't have time for this anytime soon anyway. I'm just making wishes for the future, since, after all, it does generally take quite some time for Logos to produce something.
And going back to Amazon today I did find a book about Aquinas on the Trinity that looks really interesting, and by an author I already have on my wish list. I'm going to suggest it on another thread one day, together with some other Aquinas books, since I can't see that it specifically deals with Maimonides (though he's bound to be mentioned somewhere...).
Hendrik-Jan van der Wal said:I would suggest an edition of the Miqra'ot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible). I don't know of a complete English translation, but Logos could start with the three available volumes of the JPS Commentator's Bible:
Link to Commentator's Bible - JPS: http://www.jewishpub.org/author.php?id=191
Linkt to Commentator's Bible - Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Commentators-Bible-Miqraot-Gedolot-Exodus/dp/0827608128/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
Yes, that sounds like something else Logos should have!
Hendrik-Jan van der Wal said:Two other interesting publishers are Soncino Press and ArtScroll
Agree!
Hendrik-Jan van der Wal said:[Om du kan tala/läsa spanska!]
What's this? You know Swedish?
No, Spanish is one language I've never studied. Though I can get through French and Italian if I'm interested enough, so I guess I could get through Spanish as well if I was desperate. It's not that different. I certainly don't have any problems understanding that title!
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fgh said:Hendrik-Jan van der Wal said:
Two other interesting publishers are Soncino Press and ArtScroll
Agree!
Yes, these are publishers well worth having in Logos
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Many more interesting books on Jewish exegesis can be found in this thread (not formally a Suggestion thread). I would support most of them.
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For those of you who haven't yet found out, there is now a Jewish suggestion at Logos' new Uservoice site for prepubs: Add more Jewish works. Please go add your votes. And then add the remainder of your votes to other suggestions -- preferably mine.
(There is also a new Uservoice site for CP's, with another ten new votes for you to spend: http://communitypricing.uservoice.com/forums/183260-general/filters/top. That too has a Jewish suggestion: Add more Jewish works to CP.)
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fgh said:
- Maimonides (Rambam): preferably all the theological and philosophical works, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides#Judaic_and_philosophical_works
Select Works of Moses Maimonides (6 vols.)
I got really excited when I saw this. Then I saw what was in it. Then I saw the cost: minimum bid 3.33/vol. (and one of the volumes is 20 pages...). Now I'm a lot cooler. But I'm glad they're finally putting something Jewish on CP. I hope there's more on the way.
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