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

0. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-94-6298-010-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, Index of Direct and Indirect Biblical Quotations in Arguments, Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

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.