The Guide For The Perplexed was written for scholars who were bewildered by the conflict between religion and the scientific and philosophic thought of the day. It is concerned, basically, with finding a concord between the religion of the Old Testament and its commentaries, and Aristotelian philosophy. After analyzing the ideas of the Old Testament by means of homonyms Maimonides examines other reconciliations of religion ad philosophy (the Moslem rationalists) and then proposes his own resolution with contemporary Aristotelianism.