Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi / / Gregory Kaplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; Acknowledgements --; List of abbreviations --; Introduction --; Notes to introduction --; Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam --; Notes to Arguments --; Works Cited --; Index of direct and indirect biblical quotations in Arguments --; Index to Introduction --; Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048529261; 9783110667318; 9783110606447; 9783110662849
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048529261?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gregory Kaplan.

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.