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Isaac Orobio : the Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilke, Carsten (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Studies and Texts in Scepticism ; 2
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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