Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017
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| Series: | Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9048529263 9789048529261 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019). |
