Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, & the Bible / edited by Michah Gottlieb ; translations by Curtis Bowman, Elias Sacks, and Allan Arkush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.

Contributor:

Gottlieb, Michah.

Bowman, Curtis.

Sacks, Elias.

Arkush, Allan, 1949-

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.

Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought.

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Philosophy, German--18th century.

Philosophy, German.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Writings on Judaism, Christianity, & the Bible

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy

Contents:

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I | Polemical Writings; The Lavater Affair and Related Documents(1769-1773); 1 | Lavater's Dedication to Mendelssohn (1769); 2 | Open Letter to Lavater (1769); 3 | From "Counter-Reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" (1770); 4 | Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773; 5 | Letter to "a Man of Rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar),26 January 1770; Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782-1783); 6 | From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum (1782)

7 | The Search for Light and Right in a Letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn, on the Occasion of his Remarkable Preface to Menasseh ben Israel(1782)8 | Mörschel's Postscript (1782); 9 | From Jerusalem, or on Religious Powerand Judaism (1783); 10 | From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg; 11 | From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn (1785); 12 | From Morning Hours, or Lectures on the Existence of God (1785); 13 | From To Lessing's Friends (1786); Part II | Writings on the Bible; 14 | From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1770)

15 | Introduction to Translation of the Psalms (1783)16 | From Letter to August Hennings; 17 | From Light for the Path (1783); 18 | Selections from the Bi'ur (1780-83); Part III | Miscellany; 19 | On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic; 20 | An Ontological Proof for God's Existence; 21 | A Cosmological Proof for God's Existence; 22 | A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul; 23 | A Rational Foundation for Ethics; 24 | On the Possibility of Miracles; 25 | On the Reliability of Miracles; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Translated from the German and the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-30916-5

9786613309167

1-61168-214-2

OCLC:

816868108