Maimonides in Order

One source sequence. Three ways in.

Sixteen ebook positions follow Maimonides' writings chronologically. Each position is developed in Scholarly, General Public, and Children's registers without changing the source order.

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Scholarly

Primary texts · Hebrew and Arabic · close reading

For readers who enter through the source and want the philosophical and textual apparatus.

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General Public

Same source spine · direct, accessible register

For readers who enter through a question, scene, or provocation.

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Children

Same source spine · concrete language and imagery

The difficulty remains; the language changes.

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Current development

Approved matrix · 17 chapters · Chapters 1–2 approved

Emes/Truth — Yesodei HaTorah 1:1–1:4

Emet is treated as ontological—genuine, non-contingent existence—not merely the accuracy of a statement. The recovered audience files preserve Chapter 2 components; Chapter 1 remains a separately preserved source component pending an explicitly documented assembly.

Approved matrix · 4 chapters · drafting not begun

If He Does Not Exist — Yesodei HaTorah 1:2

A phenomenological reading of dependence rather than a simple first-cause argument. The matrix is preserved; no chapter prose is presented as complete.

Approved revised matrix · 4 chapters · drafting not begun

If the Foundation Vanished — Yesodei HaTorah 1:5–1:6

Divine oneness is unlike every worldly instance of “one”: neither category nor body, with incorporeality as the logical ground of unity.

Approved draft · 8 chapters in each register

Ibn Tibbon's Preface

Three complete audience drafts examine the translator's difficulty and method. This translation-process project remains distinct from the ontological argument of Emes.

The sixteen-position map

  1. Treatise on Logic, Chapter 10 — kinds of predication
  2. Treatise on Logic, Chapter 14 — inner and outer speech
  3. Shemoneh Perakim — the soul and its names
  4. Yesodei HaTorah 1:1–1:4 — Emes/Truth
  5. Yesodei HaTorah 1:5–1:6 — divine unity
  6. Yesodei HaTorah 1:7–1:12 — unity, incorporeality, and accommodated language
  7. Yesodei HaTorah 2:1–2:2 — love, awe, and contemplation
  8. Yesodei HaTorah 2:3 — three created categories
  9. Yesodei HaTorah 2:4–2:9 — angels, ranks, and knowledge
  10. Yesodei HaTorah 2:10 — knower, known, and knowledge
  11. Yesodei HaTorah 4:7 — the indescribable
  12. Yesodei HaTorah 4:8 — false dichotomies
  13. Guide Introduction and I:1, I:50–57, I:64–65 — limits of utterance
  14. Guide I:46, I:64–65 — soul-to-soul communication
  15. Letter to Ibn Tibbon — the translation rule
  16. Ibn Tibbon's glossary — why translation requires apparatus

Existing series remain distinct

The Foundations Ebook Project preserves twenty-two completed law-specific volumes. Books & Manuscripts and standalone essays retain their own formats and histories. The three-audience structure is not imposed on every Maimonides publication.