Maimonides (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

Kenneth Seeskin, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, wrote this Maimonides entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published in 2006 and last revised in 2024. Its authority comes from the Encyclopedia's editorial model, a named specialist scholar writing a signed entry that undergoes review and is then kept current through dated revisions, distinguishing it clearly from an anonymous or crowd-edited reference page. Its limit is that a survey entry of this kind, covering a philosopher as prolific as Maimonides, necessarily summarizes a very large body of thought at a general level, so a claim needing deep engagement with one specific Maimonidean text is better served by a focused monograph.