 As explained  (§2.6),  Maimonides left it open how his Guide should be interpreted. While some Jewish thinkers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries thought that, even on a literal interpretation, his book conceded too much to philosophical ideas, a number of them, such as  Samuel ibn Tibbon  (d. 1232), responsible for one of the Hebrew translations, favoured an esoteric reading, which made the book more radically Aristotelian. Moses of Narbonne (d. after 1362) also read the Guide in this way and accepts most of Averroes’s views, including the idea that philosophy teaches the complete truth and religion provides a metaphorical version of it, suitable to be understood by ordinary people.