
Maimonides
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
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Narrated by:
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Sean Pratt
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By:
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Joel L. Kraemer
Recalling such best sellers as David McCullough's John Adams and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Maimonides is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time.
As a physician, Maimonides is associated with Hippocrates as a founder of modern medicine; his influence in philosophy is equal to that of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant; in religion, he is as significant as Moses, Martin Luther, and Saint Augustine; and as a lawgiver, he has been recognized by the United States Congress as one of the greatest alongside Hammurabi and Thomas Jefferson.
Now, in a dazzling work of scholarship, Joel Kraemer tells the complete story of Maimonides's rich life. Maimonides is at once a portrait of a great historical figure and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the 12th century. Joel Kraemer draws on a wealth of original sources to re-create a remarkable period in history when Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions clashed and mingled in a setting alive with intense intellectual exchange and religious conflict.
Born in Muslim-ruled Spain in 1135, Moses Maimonides was deeply conversant with Arabic philosophy and literature. By the time he was thirty, he was known for his seminal works on the Jewish practices and law. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and his books earned him respect and influenced generations of Christian, Muslim and Jewish thinkers.
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Thorough and scholarly
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Much Too Long
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The man behind the legend is really nice!
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Great book. Distracting pronunciation errors.
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This is an excellent piece of work. The writer undertakes thorough explanations of the real personality behind the RaMBaM. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Judaism.Great Exposition. This book is a Treasure!
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Excellent History, dry narration
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Would you try another book from Joel L. Kraemer and/or Sean Pratt?
Kraemer dropped so many references that while Pratt mentioned them, I had to pause frequently to look them up. I gained a lot of information, but I felt it would have been easier if I could have kept my notes with a text copy.Perhaps better as a text
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
More info on his writings, esp Mishnah torah and less on where he traveled and who he knew. The part of the role of a physician was insightful but I found the middle chapters to be a snooze.Was Maimonides worth the listening time?
Nodepth the the point of boredom
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Fascinating
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Concise and Erudite
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