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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key : Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought /

This portrait of English Jews reformulating their tradition in light of Enlightenment categories illuminates an overlooked corner in the history of Jewish culture in England and Jewish thought during the Enlightenment."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ruderman, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2000]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The scripture correcting Maniae" : Benjamin Kennicott and his Hutchinsonian and Anglo-Jewish detractors
  • The new and "metrical" English bible : Robert Lowth and his Jewish critic, David Levi
  • Deism and its reverberations in English Jewish thought : Abraham ben Naphtali Tang and some of his contemporaries
  • Between rational and irrational dissent : political radicalism in Anglo-Jewish thought
  • Science and Newtonianism in the culture of Anglo-Jewry
  • Translation and transformation : the Englishing of Jewish culture
  • Appendix : Moses Mendelssohn through Anglo-Jewish eyes.