Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis : : The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century / / David B. Ruderman.

An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his impact on Jewish-Christian relationsIn Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent to Warsaw by the London Society for...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 7 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments