Book Review: They Too Are Called Human Gentiles in the Eyes of Maimonides

Volume 8|Issue 29| Summer 2019 |Book Reviews

Abstract

The book, which consists of eight chapters, illustrates a very important issue, that many scholars and clergymen used the writings of Maimonides for his great fame and central authority in Jewish religious studies to the present day. They interpreted these writings to promote their religious-political propositions that emphasize privacy and imposed a fundamental barrier separating the Jew from the non-Jew. The Jewish religious heritage, like any other religious heritage, is full of possible interpretations. The reader and the scholar choose what to look for and what sources to use. Whoever wants to strengthen their human and universal leanings will find the heritage to support it.

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Nabih Bashir received his Ph.D in Jewish Though from the University of Ben-Gurion of the Negev - Israel. He is a researcher in two main subjects: medieval Jewish theology and exegeses in the Islamicate world and history of the Zionist idea. 

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