The Jews and the Bible. By Jean-ChristopheAttias; translated by PatrickCamiller. Pp. xv, 235, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014, £14.99.

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Patrick Madigan
Keyword(s):  
Stanford University ◽  
The Bible

James Arthur Diamond. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 235 pp.; Menachem Lorberbaum. Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 216 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-364
Author(s):  
Alfred Ivry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
State University ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Guide Of The Perplexed

The two books before us expand the horizons of Maimonidean studies, on the divergent planes of literature and politics. James Diamond's study of Maimonides' use of the Bible and midrash is a tour de force of literary analysis, while Menachem Lorberbaum offers in part a view of Maimonides' attitude to political authority of considerable relevance today.

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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