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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.
- 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
- Standardized Title:
- Obstaculos y opoçiçiones contra la religion xptiana en Amsterdam. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660 Obstaculos y opoçiçiones contra la religion xptiana en Amsterdam.
- Mortera, Saul Levi.
- Judaism--Apologetic works--Early works to 1800.
- Judaism.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Christianity--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Christianity.
- Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Jews.
- Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Crypto-Jews.
- Judaism--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Notes to introduction
- Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam
- Notes to Arguments
- Works Cited
- Index of direct and indirect biblical quotations in Arguments
- Index to Introduction
- Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
- Contains:
- Container of: Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660. Selections. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-69102-1
- 1-04-079280-4
- 90-485-2926-3
- 9781003691020
- OCLC:
- 1088923949
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