Isaac Orobio : the Jewish argument with dogma and doubt / edited by Carsten Wilke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilke, Carsten, 1962- editor.

Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Universität Hamburg)

Series:

Studies and texts in scepticism ; v. 2.

Studies and Texts in Scepticism ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orobio de Castro, Isaac, approximately 1617-1687.

Orobio de Castro, Isaac.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Jews--Netherlands--History.

Jews.

Netherlands.

History.

Judaism--Sephardic rite.

Genre:

History.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Other Title:

Jewish argument with dogma and doubt

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Summary:

"In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza's critque of religion. His two-front battle recruited rationalism, scepticism, and rabbinic traditon in complex ways. Six historians have newly explored Orobio's context, literary ethos, and reception at the 400th anniversary of his birth"--Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Isaac Orobio, the Sceptic Dogmatiser / Carsten Wilke

"From Christianity to Judaism" Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication / Yosef Kaplan

Orobio Contra Prado: A Trans-European Controversy / Natalia Muchnik

Cladestine Classics: Isaaco Orobio and the Polemical Genre among the Dutch Sephardim / Carsten Wilke

Isaaco Orobio de Castro a Writer: The Importance of Literary Style in the "Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles" / Harm de Boer

From Apologetics to Polemics: Isaac Orobio's Defences of Judaism and their Uses in the French Enlightenment / Adam Sutcliffe

Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul's "Israel Avenged" / David B. Ruderman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-119) and index.

ISBN:

3110575612

9783110575613

OCLC:

1023528538