Int J Philos Relig (2014) 75:73-76 DOI 10.1007/s 11153-013-9431 -4 BOOK REVIEW Book Reviews Jeffrey A. Bernstein Received: 18 September 2013 / Accepted: 24 September 2013 / Published online: 8 October 2013 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 BOOK REVIEW Leo Strauss and the rediscovery of Maimonides, by Kenneth Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, ix + 203 pp., $35.0 Leo Strauss on Maimonides: the complete writings, edited with by Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 20 pp., $45.00 (hb) In a recently discovered 1960 lecture, given at the University of Ch entitled "Introduction to Maimonides' The Guide of the Perplexed," that an awareness of the political horizon in which Maimonides li wrote "compels us to make an entirely new beginning, which is i with Maimonides' own beginning. That beginning consists in not ta for granted.. .Philosophy must be understood as in need of justifyi higher or a prephilosophical tribunal" (Leo Strauss on Maimonides 434). If Maimonides allows readers a new beginning with respect to of philosophy, and if Strauss allows readers a similarly new begin Maimonides' thought, then surely Kenneth Hart Green's two impre allow readers an analogous beginning concerning the thought of L pertains to the question of revealed Law and reason—or, as Strauss p and Athens." Does this comparison place too much importance, or to on Green's work? I believe it does not, and this for the following reason: From his early Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss (SUNY Press, 1993) to his two new volumes, Green has argued in sustained fashion for the central importance of Maimonides to the thought of Strauss. Moreover, in so doing, J. A. Bernstein (El) College of the Holy Cross. 1 College Street Box 183A, Worcester, MA 01610, USA e-mail: jbernste@holycross.edu Ô Springer