Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible /

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An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Other Authors: Gottlieb, Michah, Bowman, Curtis, Sacks, Elias, Arkush, Allan, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Hebrew
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, ©2011.
Series:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.
Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament
1700-1799
Judaism > Works to 1900.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Philosophy, German > 18th century.
Judaïsme > Ouvrages avant 1900.
Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme.
Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme.
Philosophie allemande > 18e siècle.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
PHILOSOPHY / General
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Philosophy, German
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lavater's dedication
  • Open letter to Lavater
  • From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis"
  • Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773
  • Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar)
  • From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum
  • "The search for light and right"
  • Mörschel's postscript
  • From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism
  • From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg
  • From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza
  • From Morning Hours
  • From To Lessing's Friends
  • From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes
  • Introduction to translation of Psalms
  • From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779
  • From Light for the Path
  • Selections from the Bi'ur
  • On the religious legitimacy of studying logic
  • An ontological proof for God's existence
  • A cosmological proof for God's existence
  • A proof for the immortality of the soul
  • A rational foundation for ethics
  • On the possibility of miracles
  • On the reliability of miracles.

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