1st Edition
Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi
By Gregory Kaplan
Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, Index of Direct and Indirect Biblical Quotations in Arguments, Works Cited
Biography
Professor Gregory Kaplan is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, where he also holds a Lindsay Young Professorship. He has received an NEH Fellowship and the Jefferson Prize at the University of Tennessee.
