Maimonides

 from Alberto Manguel's book in the

Yale University Press series: JEWISH LIVES

2023

"Maimonides' large, multitudinous self

was interested in almost everything:

religion,

law,

mathematics, 

logic,

rhetoric,

astronomy,

ethical behavior,

social morals,

politics,

the question of what can be known.

Music and the visual arts did appeal to him, but

everything else did.  There is Maimonides the

defender of tradition and Maimonides the thinker

who sought to reshape it, Maimonides the student 

of Aristotle and Maimonides the critic, Maimonides

the believer and Maimonides the skeptic.  Which is the

real Maimonides?