The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 1

“One of the most important contributions to the study of Maimonides . . . The translation is of a quality unequaled in a modern language.”— Journal of the History of Philosophy   This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. It has also been a formative element in the thinking of leading Christian writers and philosophers down through the seventeenth century.   The Guide is not a philo