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    The Guide for the Perplexed (Judeo-Arabic: דלאלת אלחאירין, romanized: Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn; Arabic: دلالة الحائرين, romanized: Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn; Hebrew:...
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  • Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977. The title is a reference to Maimonides's The Guide for the Perplexed....
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  • A Guide to the Perplexed (originally in Hebrew: מוֹרֵה נְבוּכִים, Mōrē Nəḇūḵīm) is a novel written in 2001 by British musician and anti-Zionist campaigner...
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  • God, A Guide for the Perplexed is a non-fiction book by Keith Ward arguing the compatibility between science and religion. In seven chapters Keith Ward...
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    Maimonides (redirect from The Rambam)
    shorashim (roots or principles) to guide his selection. Sefer Ha'shamad (Letter of Martydom) The Guide for the Perplexed, a philosophical work harmonising...
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    Abraham Abulafia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    during the early 1260s, he devoted himself with passionate zeal to the study of philosophy and The Guide for the Perplexed of Maimonides under the tutelage...
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    Sikhism (redirect from The Ten Gurus)
    Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2016. Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh (2013). Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Bloomsbury Academic...
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    Maimonides, in his book The Guide for the Perplexed (written in a Judeo-Arabic language), reasoned that the preference of the Hebrew language is based...
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    Cherub (category Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible)
    appear to the sophisticated mind, and how disturbing to the primitive. — The Guide for the Perplexed II:6. Maimonides says that the figures of the cherubim...
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  • A Guide for the Perplexed is the second non-fiction book by the American physicist Lawrence M. Krauss. It was published in 1994 by Basic Books. The book...
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    Yehuda Alharizi (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Hebrew learning across the region. He translated many Arabic works into Hebrew, including Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed and al-Hariri's Maqamat...
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  • benefit. One of the earliest is that of Maimonides in The Guide for the Perplexed. In 1953, David Macht, an Orthodox Jew and proponent of the theory of biblical...
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    Judah of Ceuta was the son of Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Kohen Ibn Soussan and a student of Maimonides for whom the Guide for the Perplexed is written. Yosef traveled...
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    Targum Onkelos (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    Luzzatto, "Oheiv Ha-Ger" (Heb.) Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed (English) OCLC 1031721874 N. Samet, "The Distinction Between Holy and Profane in Targum...
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    Targum (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    for favoring allegorical readings over anthropomorphisms. Maimonides, for one, notes this often in The Guide for the Perplexed. That is true both for...
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    Prophecy (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    Cite journal requires |journal= (help) The Guide for the Perplexed /Part II/Chapter XXXIX The Guide for the Perplexed (Friedlander)/Part II/Chapters#CHAPTER...
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    Thou shalt not commit adultery (category Sexuality in the Bible)
    — Maimonides, in The Guide for the Perplexed Leviticus 20:10 defines what constitutes adultery in the Hebrew Bible, and it also prescribes the punishment as...
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    expected the Israelites to leap from pagan worship to prayer and meditation in one step. In the Guide for the Perplexed, he writes: "But the custom which...
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    Cyril saw simplicity as preserving the transcendence and perfection of God. Maimonides, in The Guide for the Perplexed, said: If, however, you have a desire...
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    Yonatan (15 August 2019). Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth. University of Chicago...
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    Moses. The Guide for the Perplexed. Plotinus. The Enneads. Secondary sources Cobb, John B. (1978). A Christian Natural Theology: Based on the Thought of...
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  • The Guide for the Perplexed, 2:25 Maimonides. The Guide for the Perplexed, Book II, chapter 25 Maimonides. The Guide for the Perplexed, Book 2, Chapter...
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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy, it was later adapted...
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    Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review. Her fourth novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, was published in September 2013. A review in the New York Times...
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    directness. For example, Maimonides in The Guide for the Perplexed said that accounts of revelation in the Nevi'im were not always as literal as in the Torah...
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  • Leo Strauss (category Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    Judentums 81 (1936): 448–56. "The Literary Character of The Guide for the Perplexed" [1941]. 38–94 in Persecution and the Art of Writing. Chicago: U of...
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    Abraham. The thought of actually killing Isaac never crossed their minds. In The Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides argues that the story of the binding...
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  • mentioned in the Nabatean Agriculture." He provided considerable detail about the pagan Sabians in his Guide for the Perplexed (completed 1186–1190). The Sabians...
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    Medieval Hebrew (category Languages attested from the 4th century)
    to clarify terms that appear in his commentary on Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed. Moses of Salerno's glossary was edited by Giuseppe Sermoneta...
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    Abraham Maimonides (category Physicians from the Ayyubid Sultanate)
    ("The Book of the Wars for God"), in which he answers the critics of his father's philosophical doctrines expressed in The Guide for the Perplexed. He...
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