Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi
Amsterdam University Press, 2017
eISBN: 978-90-485-2926-1 | Cloth: 978-94-6298-010-5
Library of Congress Classification BM550.M67A7413 2017
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eISBN: 978-90-485-2926-1 | Cloth: 978-94-6298-010-5
Library of Congress Classification BM550.M67A7413 2017
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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