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Arguments against the Christian religion in Amsterdam / by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi ; ed., intro., trans., and notes by Gregory B. Kaplan.
Van Pelt Library BM327.A47 M67 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660, author.
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
- Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Christianity.
- Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Crypto-Jews.
- Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Jews.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Judaism.
- Relations.
- Interfaith relations.
- Marranos.
- History.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , [2017]
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9789462980105
- 9462980101
- OCLC:
- 972743425
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