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."

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Yosef Kaplan , Henry Meghoulan and Richard H. Popkin -- A GENERATION OF PROGRESS IN THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF DUTCH SEPHARDIC JEWRY / Yosef Kaplan -- THE JEWISH DIMENSION OF THE SCOTTISH APOCALYPSE: CLIMATE, COVENANT AND WORLD RENEWAL / Arthur H. Williamson -- THOMAS BRIGHTMAN AND ENGLISH APOCALYPTIC TRADITION / Avihu Zakai -- 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 / Yosef Kaplan -- THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JEWISH INDIAN THEORY / Richard H. Popkin -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AND THE WORLD OF THE NON-JEW / Henry Méchoulan -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL, HENRY MORE AND JOHANNES HOORNBEECK ON THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL* / Jan van den Berg -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL'S CHRISTIAN CONNECTION: HENRY JESSEY AND THE JEWS / David S. Katz -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AND THE DUTCH SEPHARDIC COLONIZATION MOVEMENT OF THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1645-1657)* / Jonathan I. Israel -- PETRUS SERRARIUS AND MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL: CHRISTIAN MILLENARIANISM AND JEWISH MESSIANISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMSTERDAM / Ernestine G.E. van der Wall -- SOME REMARKS REGARDING SIX AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL IN THE AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY / A.K. Offenberg -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL: ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ZOHAR AND LURIANIC KABBALAH / Joseph Dan -- KABBALAH, PLATONISM AND PRISCA THEOLOGIA: THE CASE OF R. MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL / Moshe Idel -- HOW IMPORTANT WAS MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL? / Asa Kasher -- THE MESSIANIC POLITICS OF MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL / Harold Fisch -- BOCARRO-ROSALES AND THE MESSIANISM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY / Antonio José Saraiva -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL'S APPROACH TO MESSIANISM IN THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN CONTEXT / Rivka Schatz -- MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL AS A MEETING POINT OF JEWISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY: SOME SUMMARY COMMENTS / Michael Heyd -- PLACE INDEX / Yosef Kaplan , Henry Meghoulan and Richard H. Popkin -- NAME INDEX / Yosef Kaplan , Henry Meghoulan and Richard H. Popkin.