Maimonides is surprisingly modern in his outlook. Apart from great and long-recognized influence on Christian theology deserves to be regarded as the greatest Jewish interpreter of the Scripture. Christians get stuck and stagnant in one one box of Scripture interpretation. But it is the Jews who gave us the Bible and who better than Jewish commentators can interpret their Scriptures for us? To Maimonides Judaism owes as much, actually more, than Western Christianity owes to St. Thomas Acquinas. His great Summa, which he called The Guide for the Perplexed, was written with the express intention of reconciling the truths of revealed religion with the findings of philosophy. In the middle of this book he devotes some 17 chapters to the study of prophecy, preparing the way by a discussion of the meaning of the words "The Lord spoke unto X". Thus he says that when we read that God spoke to the prophets we are to understand only that prophets attained a knowledge of divine will, and that what they said comes to us from God, and is not the product of their own minds.

It is is of no moment whether the Divine thought or will becomes known to man by a voice which he hears or by other means of inspiration; for speech, thought, and will, predicated of God, are simply accommodations to the modes human thought. As you can see, here is a Jew, a very fine one and very brilliant one at that, is presenting us with an intelligent and reverent explanation of revelation; it is the Divine will, you see, acting through human personality, informing but not suppressing it.