An Explanatory Commentary on Each Chapter
of Maimonides' Guide of The Perplexed
By: Scott Michael Alexander
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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COMMENTARY ESSAYS ON THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED
Appendix A: Rabbi Abravanel’s Commentary on pages 7a through 8a of Maimonides’ Introduction to the
Ibn Tibbon translation of The Guide of the Perplexed.
Appendix B: The Golden Apple: Grammatic and Etymological issues: Language as Camouflage for Dangerous Content.
Introduction II: Maimonides’ Introduction To The Guide Of The Perplexed – Contradictions
VOLUME ONE
Guide 1.8 Blessed Is The Lord From His Place
Guide 1:17 Philosophical Parables?
Guide 1:26 The Torah Speaks in the Language of Men
Guide 1:31 Limits of the Corporealized Intellect
Guide 1:32 Transcending the Limits of Corporealized Intellect
Guide 1:34 Teaching Divine Science
Guide 1:43 Angel Wings/Concealment
Guide 1:44 A Vision of Providence
Guide 1:47 & 48 How to Rewrite the Torah
Guide 1:49 Angels, Providence, and The Eternal Feminine
Guide 1:51 Self-Evident Truths
Guide 1:52 Maimonides’ “Affirmative Attributes”: A New Ordering
Guide 1:53 Does God Create Himself?
Guide 1:54 The Theological-Political Problem
Guide 1:55 Four Physical Things We Cannot Predicate of God
Guide 1:56 A Meditation On Similarity
Guide 1:57 About Attributes But Deeper
Guide 1:62 The Name Of The Rose
Guide 1:63 Mosaic Prophecy and Maimonidean Esotericism
Guide 1:64 Essence And Emanation
Guide 1:66 What Is The Miracle Of Torah?
Guide 1:68 God’s Mind and Man’s Mind
Guide 1:69 Life Of The Worlds Newly Revised!
Guide 1:71 Introduction To The Kalām (Islamic Theology)
Guide 1:72 Cosmos and Microcosmos
Guide 1:73 The Twelve Propositions of Kalām Theology
Guide 1:74 The Seven Kalām Arguments for Creation Ex Nihilo
Guide 1:75 The Five Kalām Arguments for The Unity Of God
Guide 1:76 The Three Kalām Arguments Against Divine Corporeality (and Transition to Volume Two)
VOLUME TWO (In Progress)
MAIMONIDES' INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II - The Twenty-Six Propositions of Aristotelian Science
Guide 2:1 The Philosophic Proofs for the Existence, Unity, and Incorporeality of God
Guide 2:2 Creation and Volition
Guide 2:3 The Other Aristotle Problem
Guide 2:4 The Aristotelians’ Theory of the Separate Intellects and the Souls of the Spheres
Guide 2:5 The Language of the Spheres in Jewish Tradition
Guide 2:6 Maimonides' Dynamic Angelology
Guide 2:7 The Moral Consciousness of Angels and of Men New!
Guide 2:8 Maimonides Rejects the Music of the Spheres New!
Guide 2:9 Maimonides' Four Heavens New!
Guide VOLUME THREE (To Be Written)
INDEX (To Be Prepared)
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