Historians of medieval Jewish philosophy have long debated what, if anything, the esoteric message of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) philosophical work, The Guide of the Perplexed, was. Apparent self-contradictions in Maimonides text led scholars to speculate about the dissident if not heretic opinions that the medieval Jewish philosopher secretly held without stating them openly. This study claims that the central enterprise of Maimonidean thought was not the esoteric acceptance or refusal of religious dogmas but developing a consistent argument to prove Gods existence. This task was far more...