Nahmanides

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An Intellectual Biography

Oded Yisraeli

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Stanford University Press
10 March 2026

Biography: religious & spiritual; History of religion; Judaism; Kabbalah: popular works

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism

In this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages. Nahmanides' creative energy spanned his long life, covering diverse fields—Talmudic and halakhic exegesis, biblical commentary, Kabbalah, homiletics, polemics, and poetry—that have all individually been the object of extensive scholarly study. This book brings the many facets of Nahmanides' work together, and breaks new ground by relating the circumstances of his life to the long arc of his intellectual career.

Yisraeli examines Nahmanides' oeuvre in light of his time and place, reading his writings as a discourse with both movements within the Jewish world of his day and the lively scholasticism of thirteenth-century Western Europe. He takes account of changes over time both in the religious world around Nahmanides, and in his doctrine throughout his career, raising new questions about Nahmanides' work and the influences on his thought. Rooted in deep historical research and attention to social context, this book offers a new historical and biographical perspective that illuminates Nahmanides' religious and intellectual world.

By: Oded Yisraeli
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781503639706
ISBN 10: 1503639703
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Oded Yisraeli is Full Professor in Kabbalah in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author, in Hebrew, of The Interpretation of Secrets and the Secrets of Interpretation (2005) and of Temple Portals: Studies in Aggadah and Midrash in the Zohar (2013, published in English 2016).

Reviews for Nahmanides: An Intellectual Biography

""Oded Yisraeli has written a penetrating intellectual portrait of a towering figure in all his developing complexity. This is a work of lasting significance.""—David Berger, Yeshiva University ""Refusing to reduce his perspective on Nahmanides—talmudist, polemicist, poet, community leader, exegete, and kabbalist—to one discipline or another, Yisraeli portrays a figure who leads, explores, and changes course over a remarkable lifetime. The most important rabbi of the thirteenth century, Nahmanides has finally gotten his biographical due.""—Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College