Menasseh Ben Israel and his world / / edited by Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaplan, Yosef.; Popkin, Richard H. 1923-2005.; Méchoulan, Henry.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1989.
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented at the conference on "Menasseh ben Israel and his world."
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; A GENERATION OF PROGRESS IN THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF DUTCH SEPHARDIC JEWRY /; THE JEWISH DIMENSION OF THE SCOTTISH APOCALYPSE: CLIMATE, COVENANT AND WORLD RENEWAL /; THOMAS BRIGHTMAN AND ENGLISH APOCALYPTIC TRADITION /; POLITICAL CONCEPTS IN THE WORLD OF THE PORTUGUESE JEWS OF AMSTERDAM DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THE PROBLEM OF EXCLUSION AND THE BOUNDARIES OF SELF-IDENTITY /; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWISH INDIAN THEORY /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AND THE WORLD OF THE NON-JEW /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL, HENRY MORE AND JOHANNES HOORNBEECK ON THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL* /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL'S CHRISTIAN CONNECTION: HENRY JESSEY AND THE JEWS /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AND THE DUTCH SEPHARDIC COLONIZATION MOVEMENT OF THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1645-1657)* /; PETRUS SERRARIUS AND MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL: CHRISTIAN MILLENARIANISM AND JEWISH MESSIANISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMSTERDAM /; SOME REMARKS REGARDING SIX AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL IN THE AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL: ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ZOHAR AND LURIANIC KABBALAH /; KABBALAH, PLATONISM AND PRISCA THEOLOGIA: THE CASE OF R. MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL /; HOW IMPORTANT WAS MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL? /; THE MESSIANIC POLITICS OF MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL /; BOCARRO-ROSALES AND THE MESSIANISM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL'S APPROACH TO MESSIANISM IN THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN CONTEXT /; MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AS A MEETING POINT OF JEWISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY: SOME SUMMARY COMMENTS /; PLACE INDEX /; NAME INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004246649
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin.

This book, the results of a conference held in Israel in 1985, brings together many new perspectives on the significance of Menasseh ben Israel's ideas, and their relation to Christian millenarian views of the time and Jewish kabbalistic and messianistic thought. Scholars from America, Europe and Israel, working on various aspects of 17th century philosophy and religion present here in 18 essays important new data and interpretations of the Jewish and Christian background, and of Menasseh's ideas and their relation to those of Jewish and Christian thinkers of the time. Thus, this volume provides the grounds for reassessing, on the basis of recent scholarship, the ferment of messianic and millenarian ideas issuing from Holland and England in the mid-17th century.