A special public lecture to celebrate the life and works of Moses Maimonides will be held on Tuesday, June 1 at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

The lecture, entitled 'Maimonides' Legacy of World-Bridging' will be given by Professor David Burrell, CSC (University of Notre Dame [USA] and scholar of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute [Jerusalem]). Professor Burrell will give a lecture on Maimonides' relationship to Muslim philosophy and his philosophical contribution to Jewish and Christian thought.

This year is the 800th anniversary of the death of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), philosopher, jurist and medical writer, who is recognised as one of the greatest and most influential Jewish authors of all time. His codification of Jewish law, the ‘Mishneh Torah’, reveals his mastery of the sources and his organising genius.

His best-known philosophical work, ‘The Guide of the Perplexed’, in which he attempts to demonstrate the compatibility of Judaism with Greco-Arabic metaphysics, has had an enormous impact on subsequent Jewish thought and also on Christian scholastic thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

The Lecture will be held at 5 pm at the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge. All are welcome.

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