Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis: Seventeenth Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides' Mishneh... - Couverture rigide

Katchen, Aaron L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674128656 ISBN 13 : 9780674128651

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah was a widely studied work in the seventeenth century, especially for apologetic purposes. Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis deals with the impact of its study on Jewish-Christian relations. Dionysius Vossius (1612-1633), Guglielmus Vorstius (c. 1610-1652), and Georgius Gentius (1618-1687) constitute a major focus of the present study and attention is given to their attitudes to and opinions of Judaism and, especially, their relations with members of the Jewish community. Their study of Maimonides' code was not without issue, and the present work ultimately turns on the instruction that Rabbis Menasseh ben Israel, Isaac Aboab, and Moses Raphael d'Aguilar provided these Christians, and on the repercussions of the Hebraists' study of the Mishneh Torah on the life of the Jewish communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674128656
• ISBN 13: 9780674128651
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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