Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes to introduction -- Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam -- Notes to Arguments -- Works Cited -- Index of direct and indirect biblical quotations in Arguments -- Index to Introduction -- Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
Summary
This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam-based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, the book stages a dialogue between two conversos that ultimately leads to a vision of a Jewish homeland-an outcome that Morteira thought was only possible through his program for rejudaisation.
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