Isaac Orobio : : The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt /

Isaac Orobio : : The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt / / Carsten Wilke.

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In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. He was also the major author who rebutted Benedict Spinoza's Freethought...

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Wilke, Carsten
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
TeilnehmendeR:
Wilke, Carsten,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
2018
Language:English
Series:Studies and texts in scepticism ; Volume 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (134 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Isaac Orobio, the Sceptic Dogmatiser / Wilke, Carsten
  • "From Christianity to Judaism" Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication / Kaplan, Yosef
  • Orobio Contra Prado: A Trans-European Controversy / Muchnik, Natalia
  • Clandestine Classics: Isaac Orobio and the Polemical Genre among the Dutch Sephardim / Wilke, Carsten
  • Isaac Orobio de Castro as a Writer: The Importance of Literary Style in the "Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles" / Boer, Harm den
  • From Apologetics to Polemics: Isaac Orobio's Defences of Judaism and their Uses in the French Enlightenment / Sutcliffe, Adam
  • Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul's "Israel Avenged" / Ruderman, David B.
  • Bibliography: Studies and Editions of Isaac Orobio de Castro
  • Index

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