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Missionaries, converts, and rabbis : the evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian debate in the nineteenth century / David B. Ruderman.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruderman, David B., author.
- Series:
- Jewish culture and contexts.
- Jewish culture and contexts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions to Jews--History--19th century.
- Missions to Jews.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--19th century.
- Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History--19th century.
- Christianity and other religions.
- London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.
- McCaul, Alexander, 1799-1863.
- McCaul, Alexander.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource 1 onlinr resource (265 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This book is about the English missionary Alexander McCaul, who wrote many works aiming to convert Jews to Christianity. The book is about people who are caught between belief practices: philo-Semitisim, philo-Chrstianity, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: Alexander McCaul and His Assault on Rabbinic Judaism
- Chapter 2. Sketches of Modern Judaism in McCaul's Other Writings
- Chapter 3. From Missionizing the Jews to Defending Biblical Inerrancy: The Last Years of McCaul's Life
- Chapter 4. The Intellectual and Spiritual Journey of Stanislaus Hoga: From Judaism to Christianity to Hebrew Christianity
- Chapter 5. The Christian Opponents of McCaul and the London Society: John Oxlee and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Chapter 6. Moses Margoliouth: The Precarious Life of a Scholarly Convert
- Chapter 7. The Jewish Response to McCaul: Isaac Baer Levinsohn
- Chapter 8. From Vilna to Aleppo: Two Additional Responses to McCaul's Assault
- Afterword
- Appendix: A Sampling of Contemporary Christian Authors Cited in Isaac Baer Levinsohn's Polemical Writings
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Published in association with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812297034
- 0812297032
- OCLC:
- 1155970972
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