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After leading public burnings of a book by this thinker, the author of The Gates of Repentance vowed to bow before his grave for seven straight days. The third section of a modern philosopher’s Persecution and the Art of Writing characterizes this thinker as a “closet atheist.” This thinker (15[1])developed his view of the heavens by analyzing a passage describing four four-faced animals seen in a vision of a chariot. This author rejected an ancient (-5[1])thinker’s principle that the universe is (*) eternal after (-5[1])listing twenty-six of that thinker’s principles in a book that rejects kalam’s account of creation. This thinker used negative theology in a book addressed to his student Joseph (10[1])ben Judah that aimed (10[1])to reconcile Aristotelianism (-5[1])with Jewish theology. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Jewish author of Guide (-5[1])for the Perplexed and the Mishneh Torah. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Moses Maimonides [or Moses ben Maimon; or Moshe ben Maimon; accept Rambam] (The Gates of Repentance is by Yonah Gerondi. Persecution and the Art of Writing is by Leo Strauss.)
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