is the subject of conference
Yale will host a conference on Sunday, Sept. 12, to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and community leader Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), also known as "Maimonides" and "the Rambam."
The conference, "Moses Maimonides: His Life and His Love of God," is free and open to the public.
Maimonides is considered the most original and influential Jewish thinker in pre-modern times. Born in Cordoba, Spain, he lived most of his life in Egypt where he served as physician to the Jewish community and to the Muslim court. In addition to producing a central body of legal and philosophical writings that shaped Jewish thinking and practice in many regions of the world over the centuries, he wrote "Guide to the Perplexed," which entered Western history through St. Thomas Aquinas, who quoted from the book in Latin translation.
The conference will open at 10 a.m. with a panel on the challenges of writing a biography of Maimonides. Participants will be Joel Kraemer, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery (gastroenterology) at Yale. This session will take place in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
Daniel Lasker, professor of Jewish thought at Ben Gurion University in Israel, will present a talk titled "The Love of God in Maimonides' Philosophy" at 2 p.m. in Sterling Memorial Library, 120 Wall St. This will be followed at 3 p.m. with a talk by Menachem Kellner, professor of Jewish thought at Haifa University in Israel, titled "Philosophical Spirituality: Maimonides on the Liturgy."
In coordination with the conference, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will exhibit works of Maimonides from the Yale collections.
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