Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis

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ISBN: 9780674128651 | 0674128656
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/26/1985

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This work, a complex exposition of Jewish philosophical methodology and doctrine completed in 1190 and translated from Arabic into Latin within three decades of the author's lifetime, made him a widely celebrated figure in the scholastic capitals of Europe.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: The Vicissitudes of "Rabbi Moyses Aegyptius" the Jurist: The Christian Study of Mishneh Torah Down to the Seventeenth Century
Hebraism and the Dutch Republic
The Culture and Politics of the Dutch Republic
Dutch Humanism and the Politics of Theology
Rabbinic Studies Out of Leiden and Franeker: The Early Study of Mishneh Torah in the Netherlands
Drusius, Scaliger and Other Forerunners
Petrus Cunaeus: On the Commonwealth of the Hebrews
Hugo Grotius as Hebraist
Johannes Coccejus, the First Hebraist Commentator on the Mishnah: Sanhedrin and Makkot
Constantine l'Empereur, Professor of Jewish Controversies: His Commentaries on Mishnah and His Clavis Talmudica
Buxtorf's Translation of the Guide
"G. N.": An Englishman's On Repentance
Millenarianism and Hebraism
The Portuguese Nation on the Amstel and Its Rabbis: "Veritas è terra orietur" ("Truth Will Arise From the Earth")
The Instruction of Christian Hebraists in the Setting of the Amsterdam Jewish Community and in Light of Its Major Concerns
The Intellectual and Moral Concerns of the Rabbinic Leadership
Isaac Ahoab da Fonseca, Kabbalist and Preacher
Moshe Rephael d'Aguilar, Hebraist and Teacher
The Portuguese Nation on the Amstel and Its Rabbis
Menasseh ben Israel, Defender of His People in Person and in Print: Millenarian Goals arid Temporal Controversies
Menasseh as Literary Apologist
The Conciliator
The De Creatione
The De Resurreclione Mortuorum and Other Works of the 1630s
On Human Frailty, to Anslo
The Latin Mishneh Torah of Amsterdam
Dionysius Vossius
The Son of Gerhard Johann Vossius: The Scholar in Training
Menasseh's Conciliator
Reyd's Annales
The Commentary on Caesar
Maimonides' On Idolatry
The Canon of Translation
The Sources of the Commentary: Rabbinic and General
Lexical Annotations
"Rationales" and the Line of Maimonides' Argumentation
Cross-References: the Corresponding Example, the "Testimonia" Qr, Vossius's Learning Displayed
The Halakhah Understood: Legal Issues
The History and Nature of Religion
Homiletics, Animadversions, and the Defense of Mairnonides
Vossius and John Spencer: Vossius and his Readership
Vossius the Scholar: Some judgments
The Latin Mishneh Torah of Amsterdam
Guglielmus Vorstius, On the Fundamental Principles of the Torah: The Polemicist
Georgius Gentius, On the Principles of Ethics: In Praise of Maimonides
The Commendatory Poems
Apologetics and Diplomacy on Elbe and Thames: The Outcome of the Rabbis' Instruction
Gentius in Hamburg
Menasseh in London
Harbingers of the Neutral Society: Some Conclusions
Appendix to III: The Publication of De Idololatria: The Circumstances
Notes
Notes to Preface
Notes to Introduction
Notes to Part I
Notes to Part II
Notes to Part III
Notes to Part IV
Bibliography
Major Primary Sources
Bibliographic and Reference Aids
Other Primary and Secondary Sources
Indices
Index of Biblical Passages
Index of Passages from De Idololo Trio
Index of Titles
General Index
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