The Guide for the Perplexed: Easy to Read Layout - Paperbackby Moses Maimonides (Author), M. Friedlander (Translator) It is the object of this work "to afford a guide for the perplexed," i. e. "to thinkers whose studies have brought them into collision with religion" (p. 9), "who have studied philosophy and have acquired sound knowledge, and who, while firm in religious matters, are perplexed and bewildered on account of the ambiguous and figurative expressions employed in the holy writings" (p. 5). Joseph,