Committed to the historical challenge of Aristotelianism philosophy from Greece via the Islamic philosophy to Judaism in the Middle Ages

Maimonides chose the strategy of integrating the religious tradition and the philosophy of rationalism.In doing so

he first dealt with the problem of the language of religion.He devoted most chapters of the First Part of his masterpiece The Guide of the Perplexed to explaining the words and sentences in Torah and other rabbinic literatures that in a traditional sense indicate the corporeality and plurality of God.Through the traditional method of allegorical interpretation

Maimonides tactfully rendered those words or texts in a way that the traditional Judaic literatures are consistent with the rationalist philosophy.Hence he began the troublesome journey of justifying the legitimacy of Judaism from the perspective of philosophy in the rest chapters of the Guide.