I asked you this question last week and one of you had the right answer within nine hours. That's pretty damn good. Better than me.If you visit the U.S. House of Representatives, you'll notice twenty-three marble relied portraits of famous lawgivers. One of them is Maimonides.
He was a Renaissance man before the Renaissance, a philosopher, scientist, physician, jurist, theologian and mathematician. He is considered the foremost Jewish scholar of all time. Born in 1138, he lived his entire life in an Islamic civilization. Ironically, at that time the Islamic civilization was far more secular than the Christian world, embracing a variety of cultures and peoples in which a person like Maimonides could blossom. Some say he served briefly as personal physician to Richard Couer de Lion. (the Lionheart).
I am reading a recent biography, Maimonides, written by Joel L Kraemer. I'm ashamed to say I knew nothing about him until I saw that book.
