smb@ulysses.att.com (07/26/89)
Equating the Rambam with a gay atheist will definitely make some folks unhappy... ``Rambam'' is the acronym for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known in English as Maimonides. Maimonides was a 12th-centry Spanish-born Egyptian physician, philosopher, and teacher. He is one of the greatest theologians in Jewish history. (Acronyms are a common method of abbreviation in Hebrew; they work better than in English because only consonants have letters, and vowel marks can be attached to any letter. You thus do not end up with unpronouncable names like DTMF.) --Steve Bellovin
cramer@sun.com (07/26/89)
Rambam (also known as Maimonides), is a Jewish scholar and philosopher who was born in Spain in the Middle Ages. The Lubavitch Chassidic sect is particularly fond of his writings, and I suspect that they are the sponsors of the "Dial a Jewish Story" and "Dial a Rambam" messages. Sam