Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi

0. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-94-6298-010-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 244 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Reihe: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam-based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, the book stages a dialogue between two conversos that ultimately leads to a vision of a Jewish homeland-an outcome that Morteira thought was only possible through his program for rejudaisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam (ms. EH/LM 48D38 [Fuks 206]) Index of Direct and Indirect Biblical Quotations in Arguments Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Kaplan, Gregory
Professor Gregory Kaplan is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, where he also holds a Lindsay Young Professorship. He has received an NEH Fellowship and the Jefferson Prize at the University of Tennessee.