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April 29, 2025

A New Maimonides Translation for the Devout Breaks the Mold

ArtScroll discovers al-Farabi.

The American Orthodox publishing house ArtScroll has achieved considerable success producing prayerbooks and other religious texts with English translations, easy-to-use formats, and explanatory commentary. To its champions, ArtScroll has made Jewish knowledge and learning accessible in unprecedented ways; to its critics, its interpretations are overly dogmatic and ignore academic scholarship completely. Although sympathetic to these criticisms, Yaakov Taubes was pleasantly surprised by ArtScroll’s newest volume of the works of Moses Maimonides—a canonical authority it had until recently neglected:

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