Exame Das Tradições Phariseas

Exame Das Tradições Phariseas
Author: Uriel Da Costa
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004099234

The retrieval in 1990 of what is probably the sole surviving copy of Uriel da Costa's book, outlawed and burnt in 1624, is an almost miraculous boon for humanity. Da Costa's "Exame," supplemented by da Silva's "Tratado," merits a prominent place in the history of thought, Judaism and Portuguese Literature.

Reluctant Cosmopolitans

Reluctant Cosmopolitans
Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1909821802

Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.

Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb

Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb
Author: Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004171967

The book deals with the coordinates of a oemodernitya as premises of Jewish philosophy in the Renaissance and early modern period.

Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration

Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration
Author: Marco Piazza
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031187121

This book challenges Voltaire’s doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire’s attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article ‘Juifs’ in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance
Author: Ilana Zinguer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004212558

This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.

Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500-2000)

Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500-2000)
Author: Israel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004500952

This volume, consisting of seventeen studies by leading experts in the field, takes stock of recent work on the history and literary culture of the Jews in the Netherlands and Antwerp from before the revolt until the present. Important new discoveries are included here for the first time.

Judaism for Christians

Judaism for Christians
Author: Sina Rauschenbach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498572979

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars interested in Hebrew studies and negotiated with Oliver Cromwell and Parliament the return of the Jews to England. Born to a family of former conversos, Menasseh was versed in Christian theology and astutely used this knowledge to adapt the content and tone of his publications to the interests and needs of his Christian readers. Judaism for Christians: Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) is the first extensive study to systematically focus on key titles in Menasseh’s Latin works and discuss the success and failure of his strategies of translation in the larger context of early modern Christian Hebraism. Rauschenbach also examines the mistranslation of his books by Christian scholars, who were not yet ready to share Menasseh’s vision of an Abrahamic theology and of a republic of letters whose members were not divided by denomination. Ultimately, Menasseh’s plans to use Jewish knowledge as an entrée billet for Jews into Christian societies proved to be illusory, as Christian readers understood him instead as a Jewish witness for “Christian truths.” Menasseh’s Jewish coreligionists disapproved of what they perceived to be his dangerous involvement in Christian debates, providing non-Jews with delicate information. It was only a century after his death that Menasseh became a model for new generations of Jewish scholars.

Spinoza

Spinoza
Author: Richard H. Popkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780744692

This authoritative new introduction draws on both Richard H. Popkin's unparalleled scholarship and a wealth of historical and philosophical sources to highlight the real influences behind Spinoza's thought. Popkin reconstructs Spinoza the man, and his theories, contrasting these findings with some of the popularity held misconceptions. Locating him within the context of his family and background, the author assesses the impact on Spinoza of everything from his infamous excommunication, to his affection for Euclidian geometry and the work of Descartes. With a full account of Spinoza's groundbreaking Tractatus and Ethics, and an overview of his influence on both of his contemporaries and those who were to folow, this concise survey offers a variety of new perspectives, and will be warmly welcomed by students, scholars and interested readers alike.

Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004672532

In July of 1998 the European Association for Jewish Studies celebrated its Sixth Congress in Toledo, with almost four hundred participants. In these Proceedings have been collected 169 papers and communications read during the conference. By and large, they offer a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic Studies at the turn of the 20th century, on the eve of the new millennium. They represent the point of view of the European scholars, enriched with notable contributions by colleagues from other continents. One volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11554-5) includes papers dealing with Jewish studies on biblical, rabbinical and medieval times, as well as with some general subjects, such as Jewish languages and bibliography. A second volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11558-3) is dedicated to the Judaism of modern times, from the Renaissance to our days.

Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: European Association for Jewish Studies. Congress
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789004115583

A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists—especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere—a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination? With The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas brings us another fast-paced mix of popular culture, love, mystery, and irresistible philosophical adventure.